Oh Canada! Men Win in Curling!!

I absolutely loved the curling! Kevin Martin is such a curling talent and he now has a Gold Medal to put on his resume. It was an absolutely exciting match. The triple knockouts were a thing of beauty. It was such an amazing match and a well deserved win. It is a shame that Team Canada`s Ladies couldn`t have wound up with the same fate, but unfortunately Bernard couldn`t handle the pressure and missed two very key shots that would have won the game in both the 10th and the 11th end. Oh well, I`ll take a Gold and a Silver!

I tried to get curling, but the only thing I've managed is to find out that the Norwegian skip is quite cute and their trousers really hypnotizing. I haven't watched much of the other sports either, but at least it's not very difficult to figure out what the goal is in most of the other ones. Go fastest, jump longest etc. Curling on the other hand :-)

Woohoo!!!! And let's hope we win in hockey this afternoon, against the USA. We sure have a lot of gold medals. I heard something interesting on the BBC last night. One of the reasons why Canadians didn't do so well in the past was that they felt that the Americans were too arrogant, and we didn't want to "be like them." Now I'm not saying this about all Americans (I'm aware I'm responding to an American now!!), but in sports and politics, Americans can be a bit "much" sometimes, and Canadians tend to shy away from this, even at the risk of losing. I think in this Olympics we're starting to realize that this isn't going to happen, that we need to do our BEST and not worry about "looking like an American."

I'm afraid I didn't watch a whole lot of the curling competition and what I did see was in the middle of the night when I was half asleep! I felt kind of like a dummy because I couldn't seem to figure it out. Next time I'll try harder, when I'm actually awake. Annie

I dont know what Curling is I plan to look it up but I know the feeling of pride once gets when from seeing the National team win a match .I remember when our local national team went to world cup in 1998 for the first time .It was such a great sense of achievement thatis spoken of today and we did well.

I saw glimpses of the game. Those Norweigan pants are so distracting! Anyway, I think I should find a rink nearby where I could try out curling. I still think I could do it. I think I was good at chess when I was young. I'm relatively good at bowling, and I can handle geometry. I'm not too late for Sochi Congratulations Canada!

Sitting there on the edge of my seat for most of the match it suddenly hit me. This is curling - - no checking, no zone defenses, no corner kicks - - just real athletes. Not bad. And oh, yeh, Congrats Canada!