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The comeback completed for the Czech Republic! After a miss by cm in the 8th, Norway makes one of their own in the extra end, GG.

Really interesting to see the communication between the English speaking Chinese coach, the English and Chinese speaking Fan, and Chinese speaking Ling.

China v Switzerland and Czech Republic v Norway to extra ends! Bold has shot rock.

This draw for 4 for the Czechs is not easy though....pinhole accuracy.

The Americans steal the 8th in every sense of the word! A missed takeout on the final stone of the game by the Aussies. Great performance from both teams.

tied going into the 8th! Aussies with shot rock.

T-60 mins before Plys/Persinger get the Olympics underway for the US. Who's got medal predictions for these Winter Games?

Week in Winter #2 - United States March 11th - March 25th (WIP) Since I missed the previous week, I am covering both in this post. Alpine Skiing Going back to last week, we had the finals of the Alpine Skiing World Cup in Are, Sweden. In this, and the overall, the US fared very well on the women's side, but not as well on the men's side. Ladies' Downhill: Men's Downhill: Ladies' Super G: Men's Super G: No competitors Team Event: No competitors Ladies' Slalom: Men's Slalom: These results mean that Mikaela Shiffrin wins the Overall and Slalom Crystal Globes! Biathlon March 15th-18th there was a Biathlon WC Event in Oslo: Women Sprint: Men Sprint: Women Relay: Men Pursuit: Women Pursuit: Men Relay: This was a great result for our women, especially Susan Dunklee! A podium finish for her, just her 7th career, and coming off one at the World Championships last year. This race was also significant for the US as it marked the end of the 2 top biathletes for the US, Lowell Bailey and Tim Burke. They both have had great careers and have come close to giving the US their first biathlon medal. I loved watching these gentlemen, and their absence will surely be felt. There was a Biathlon World Cup event in Tyumen, Russia that was the following week and concluded the season. This race was boycotted by the United States because of continued suspicion of Russian doping allegations. Bobsleigh The Bobsleigh World Cup will resume 7-9 December in Sigulda, Latvia. Cross-Country Skiing Curling Figure Skating Freestyle Skiing Ice Hockey Luge The Luge World Cup will resume in November. Nordic Combined Short Track Speed Skating Skeleton The Skeleton World Cup will resume 7-9 December in Sigulda, Latvia. Ski Jumping Snowboarding Speed Skating

I really don't know how my White Sox are going to do this year. They have shown some progress over the last couple of years. Hopefully this year they can break out of the cellar!

You mean the fer, coldzero, taco, and fallen SK Gaming??? That's amazing!

So, here's the part where my crazy comes out: Predominantly Overwatch and Starcraft, sometimes CSGO and Rocket League, and the occasional Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, DotA and League.

I am willing to help whenever. I have 2 text files that I update roughly every 3 months with upcoming events for various sports, USA or not, and also including e-sports events. I've attached them below. League Watch List are leagues that stretch out over long periods of time. Watch List is singular events newleaguewatchlist.txt watchlist.txt

[hide] Men's Tournament Knockout Round February 20th - February 25th, 2018 Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match Bronze Medal Match Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 24th 2018, h. 21:10 Canada 2 Czech Republic Gold Medal Match Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 25th 2018, h. 13:10 Germany 2 Olympic Athletes from Russia [/hide]

Team USA 2018 - Winter Olympics Schedule All times in PST Day 14 (February 23rd) Biathlon Men's 4x7.5km Relay - 3:15am Team USA Tim Burke Lowell Bailey Leif Nordgren Russell Currier Sean Doherty Thoughts/Background Information Bailey and Burke are pretty decent biathletes, but I'm not very hopeful for a medal here either. Figure Skating Ladies Free - 5:00pm Team USA Karen Chen Mirai Nagasu Bradie Tennell Thoughts/Background Information We are not in a good position to medal in this event. 9th, 10th, and 11th going into it, all 3 were unable to have a clean skate in the short, and that is going to basically eliminated from a medal. Speed Skating Men's 1000m - 2:00am Team USA Shani Davis Joey Mantia Mitchell Whitmore Recap All 3 of these gentlemen are strong skaters and could challenge for a medal if they are able to skate particularly well. Unfortunately, that hasn't been the case for the US these Olympics.

Team USA 2018 - Winter Olympics Results Day 13 (February 22nd) Alpine Skiing Men's Slalom Team USA David Chodounsky - 18th Mark Engel - 31st Nolan Kasper - DNF Recap Not the worst result. Not the best. Pretty okay with this. Women's Combined: Team USA Alice Merryweather - 15th Mikaela Shiffrin - 2nd Lindsey Vonn - DNF Recap Vonn going out on the slalom was a huge loss for the US. But Mikaela Shiffrin did a great job in both runs. Alice Merryweather did a good job finishing both runs. Biathlon Women's 4x6km Relay Team USA Susan Dunklee - 13th Clare Egan- 13th Emily Dreissigacker- 13th Joanne Reid- 13th Recap Susan Dunklee did a great job starting off, but our follow up wasn't quite there, as Emily and Joanna did, honestly, a pretty poor job shooting. Hopefully this team can improve. Curling Men's United States of America 3 vs 5 Canada Team USA John Shuster Tyler George Matt Hamilton John Landsteiner Team Canada Kevin Koe Marc Kennedy Brent Laing Ben Hebert Recap INCREDIBLE! What an upset! America is going to its first final, while Canada will not be going for the first time! And this is the second win for Shuster against Canada. What a Games for this team! Freestyle Skiing Men's Ski Halfpipe Team USA Aaron Blunck - 7th Alex Ferreira - 2nd David Wise - 1st Torin Yater-Wallace - 9th Recap Another incredible result for the US! An absolutely amazing performance for this team! What a day for the US! Ice Hockey Women's United States of America 3 vs 2 Canada [I don't want to type all of their names] Recap YEEEEEEEEEEEES! I lost so much sleep over this game and I don't regret one second of it! FINALLY got the Gold and beat Canada at the Olympics! These women are incredible! Nordic Combined Team Large Hill/4x5km Team USA Bryan Fletcher - 10th Taylor Fletcher- 10th Ben Berend- 10th Ben Loomis- 10th Recap There were only 10 teams. Snowboard Women's Big Air Team USA Jamie Anderson - 2nd Jessika Jenson - 11th Julia Marino - 10th Recap Nabbed another medal for the US in this event. Second medal for Jamie in these Olympics. Awesome performance for her!