Ok she's hitting it when it matters that's prolly gg. Norway choked too hard

Canada's B-Game still good enough to win by a wide margin.

Yay time for gold

Game 1 and the first 2 ends of this game, the Canadians have been just ridiculous. They remind me of Iceman (the true hero of top gun). They nearly always call the right shot and execute it well.

American mario on the other hand... will we be seeing more of that dumpster fire in the other curling disciplines?

With John SHUSTAAAAA captaining the US men's team, anything that can go horribly wrong in curling can happen.

I don't know why we don't watch more curling more often except for these Olympic games. It's a great sport to watch, presumably a even better sport to play.

you guys all watching this ironically like the challenge os

man this canadian girl is ****ing trash

imagine practicing this for x years and sucking so much

how bad is this canadian idiot my god

The funny thing about that and I don't know how countries pick their players for curling, but you got to think, there are bound to be worst potential players that show up regularly in the curling circuit that could have been on that pairing and there could be the idea that she was the best female of the bunch for the Canadian team.

this is embarrassing for both teams at this point

i find this norwegian chick strangely hot. the canadian is too but man these guys suck

what happened to those big ass janitor brooms they used to have

Lol the Norwegian girl is def not hot. Not ugly but yea she's not hot

these guys have to be taking the piss at this point

this is some of the worst stuff i have ever seen. surely we're all being trolled

Made them illegal.

Oh man Shuster AND Super Mario Hamilton are both on the Men's team

I cannot wait, it's going to be tremendously bad

shustahhhhhhhh

I can create threads for the Brier and Scotties and provide streams if you all like, might not be as interested since it's between representatives from each Canadian province and not countries.
Then there's the world championships which is mentioned in the curling thread and will be happening soon after the Olympics.

Information on the two Canadian curlers:
Kaitlyn Lawes- is the vice(3rd) for Jennifer Jones, actually skipped a team to beat Homan (GOAT Canadian curling team) when they were juniors to win nationals and then worlds. She won gold with the Jones team in Sochi, and is a multi time world champion as a vice.

John Morris- won gold as Kevin Martin's vice in 2010, then left to start his own team and was okay, but not quite good enough to beat the top Canadian teams. Then he started throwing 3rd stones while calling the game (not unheard of) while Simmons threw last rocks, eventually in one Brier they had a mutiny of sort after 5 games and Simmons started taking over skipping duties and they won the Brier and world championship in 2015. Jim Cotter took over the Simmons role as 4th the next year while Morris regained skipping duties.
One of the best hitters in the world and calls a good game, but his draw weight isn't consistent enough to be an elite skip that throws 4th stones.

Derp. What does play to the whistle even mean?

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Can you tell us more about how canadian curling competitions work? For example
- are there teams representing cities like Seattle Seahawks, Denver Broncos etc.?
- are there leagues?
- do teams stay together or is drama common (like the guy leaving Kevin Martin's team)
- how do canadians choose their olympics team? (is it best team or 4 best individuals)

The crowd spontaneously breaking into Oh Canada! in the last end of the gold medal game in 2010 is on my list of favorite olympics moments.

Anyone can join a team together, but they have to represent one curling club regardless if they actually curl from there (1 member on the team has to be a member at the club for the previous year). I'm not sure, but I think at least one player on the team has to have lived in the province they supposedly represent for a period of time too.
There is a competitive circuit now (which includes grand slam events) that have the top curling teams from around the world in them, mostly Canadians with maybe one team from the US, the Norwegian team, the Swedish, British, also compete in these events (Edin, Ullsrud, Brewster, Murdoch). The Russian and Chinese women compete in the women's side of these events. The winners get decent money in these events.

For the Brier (men) or Tournament of Hearts(women) (Canadian championships) each province sends one entrant so there are playdowns in the province with a bunch of zones (anyone can enter these) and then regionals to determine the entrants for the provincial championship. The winner of each province gets an entry into the Brier/ Scotties. The winner of the nationals gets an entry into the world championships each year and in the case of the women the winner gets an automatic re-entry as team Canada in next year's national tournament (the men do not). Winning these gets your team more recognition and probably better sponsors for the circuit, also way more fame.

For the Olympics it's a different qualification, the top 10 teams from the past two years over the national tournaments and these grand slam circuit tournaments enter a tournament (Roar of the Rings) with the winner going to the Olympics. The Roar of the Rings takes place before any of the normal qualifications for provincials.

As for switching teams, it does happen, sometimes a young player might quit a team to go to school to have a normal life (Homan's 2nd did this 4 years ago- Kreviazuk) and then another second from Alberta who was considered the best sweeper in the world jumped at the chance and joined team Homan (Courtney). Jennifer Jones saw Kaitlyn Lawes as being an amazing up and coming curler from Ontario and didn't like her 3rd that much so told her vice to GTFO and brought in Lawes. That brought in some drama as many don't think it's proper to kick off members of your team after so many years (they won mulltiple world championships with the old vice), still the results worked out well for Jones.
Also, some teams might join up to try and create super teams a couple years before the Olympics to try and get there and then split up after as the vice or front end want to move up and skip or vice themselves.
Kicking a player off a team that has competed together for a while is usually cause for more drama than leaving a team to form your own rink, still time heals all wounds.

These norwegian curlers suck, Hopefully my man Thomas brought the real pants for the real tournament

Is the joke of a team event done yet so we can get to SHUSTAHHH dominating mens?

Hot Russian girl can throw some stones