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Anyone excited for the Stone Curling at the Winter Olympics?

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The 2018 Winter Olympics is starting, and we all get to watch the greatest ever sport known to humankind be played out on its biggest stage.

There will be no nuclear Armageddon between the two Korea's while the worlds best Stone Curlers take to the ice, and everyone stops what they are doing to watch in excitement.

Stone Curling at this elite level is always brilliant.

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meeeeh

I grew up going to ice hockey matches and I still have soft spot for it. It doesn't translate on tv that well but watched live is great sport. Ice skating can be cool too. Ski Jumps can be a bit meh because they don't do the biggest hills on Olympics but I like to see Ski flight championships.

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I went looking for some curling but it took me a few minutes to figure out that it is six am in Korea.

Atoms for Peace

Its a bit like snooker in that initially it seems totally pointless and boring but once you give it a chance its actually quite tense.

bnt

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Curling is fantastic entertainment.

My favorite player is Anastasia Bryzgalova

https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/en/curling/athlete-profile-n3043370-anastasia-bryzgalova.htm

The Daily Mail seems to be reading Boards - they've picked up on this. Bad news, guys - she's married, to her Curling partner.

I remember this sudden interest in Curling happened four years ago, too, and eight years ago. Last time it was the Scotland GB captain Eve Muirhead, who's skipping the Olympics this year. It seems to be a thing: people come across the Curling, start off going "what?, and then "oh, that's cool". :cool:

LirW

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Curling is fantastic entertainment.

My favorite player is Anastasia Bryzgalova

https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/en/curling/athlete-profile-n3043370-anastasia-bryzgalova.htm

Saw her in the semi finals against Switzerland today, oh boy, that was a nerve wrecking one. She's a stunner and a determined athlete.

Curling together with Bowls are the pinnacle of sports, I don't care what others think.

Richard Hillman

Silje Noredal, another absolute specimen of Athletic Prowess at the Games

Badly Drunk Boy

The whole thing leaves me cold...

Capt'n Midnight

With all this interest I'm worried that it will get too competitive and we'll start to hear about the cheating and the drugs and the expose of how the Asian gambling syndicates have fixed the games ....

Enjoy it while it lasts

dxhound2005

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

With all this interest I'm worried that it will get too competitive and we'll start to hear about the cheating and the drugs and the expose of how the Asian gambling syndicates have fixed the games ....

Enjoy it while it lasts

Drug testing is done in curling and in wheelchair curling.

Capt'n Midnight

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Drug testing is done in curling and in wheelchair curling.

But what about training at altitude and sleeping in hyperbaric chambers and subtle levels of human growth hormone extracted from cadavers ?

endacl

Hector Bellend wrote: »

Stone curling at the olympics had me curling my stones in excitement

Sub zero lawn bowls combined with obsessive cleaning?

What's not to love?!?

cycle4fun

The speed and skill of some of them athletes at the winter Olympics is something else.

endacl

cycle4fun wrote: »

The speed and skill of some of them athletes at the winter Olympics is something else.

Competitive sliding around? Sometimes combined with competitive lying down?

salmocab

Combination of new baby so staying up late and olympics many time zones away means I can indulge in some nonsense sports that the wife would otherwise not be having a bar of. Curling is always a highlight. I’ve watched loads of it over the years and still don’t understand the scoring but it doesn’t stop me enjoying it.

bnt

The Curling is back on the Beeb because GB is facing off against Canada. It's the round robin phase, so this is for points only, but these are the two top teams in the sport. Canada has the early lead but GB are fighting back.

meeeeh

bnt wrote: »

The Curling is back on the Beeb because GB is facing off against Canada. It's the round robin phase, so this is for points only, but these are the two top teams in the sport. Canada has the early lead but GB are fighting back.

I should know Brits are involved in it. It ties in well with cricket and darts as the most boring sports. Winter Olympics should be are all about sports where broken limbs and missing teeth are a real possibility. Not about using sweeping brush on ice.

DEFTLEFTHAND

How are the Irish team doing over there?

Not much coverage on them in the media. Heard a fella came last in something on Saturday and that was about it.

DEFTLEFTHAND

meeeeh wrote: »

I should know Brits are involved in it. It ties in well with cricket and darts as the most boring sports. Winter Olympics should be are all about sports where broken limbs and missing teeth are a real possibility. Not about using sweeping brush on ice.

Darts is boring?

meeeeh

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Darts is boring?

Yes.

ohnonotgmail

It seems that Mr T has become a fan

http://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-43057789

bnt

meeeeh wrote: »

I should know Brits are involved in it. It ties in well with cricket and darts as the most boring sports. Winter Olympics should be are all about sports where broken limbs and missing teeth are a real possibility. Not about using sweeping brush on ice.

Those Curling stones weigh around 40 lbs each. You wouldn't want one of those in the face. I wonder what a Curling team's excess baggage charges are like? :eek:

valoren

The Downhill is where it's at for me. Skiing down a bloody mountain at speeds upwards of 150kph. It's both crazy and cool at the same time, you can't help but respect it.

ohnonotgmail

valoren wrote: »

The Downhill is where it's at for me. Skiing down a bloody mountain at speeds upwards of 150kph. It's both crazy and cool at the same time, you can't help but respect it.

I wonder would they let me snowplough all the way down?

FatherTed

Surely Ireland can come up with a Curling team to compete?

no.8

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Remember the young American snowboarder who represented us 4 years ago. He said he wanted to use the experience to help him in his drive to make the US team in 4 years time.

I still remember the fellas name. 'O'Connor.'

The cheek of the guy, don't use us.

He bombed out in Sochi after. Fcking loser.

Completely off-topic and miserable point.

Fair play to him anyway. Will hopefully inspire the next generation (having blown-out his knee 16 months prior I think its remarkable that he almost went and qualified for the final...13th with 1 run left [1st 12 qualified]).

Anyways...back on topic.

Mr. Guappa

FatherTed wrote: »

Surely Ireland can come up with a Curling team to compete?

"Declan Moffit, Glenamaddy. The best of luck"

no.8

Fattes wrote: »

If your defenition of a loser is a 2 time Olympian at 20 I am sure you are a sporting genius!

He competes in slope style, a judged sport, a run that could win you the x Games might see you finish 8th in the olympics!

Oh and he is carrying the flag for us tomorrow and yep he ha been to Ireland

Here here....I applaud the lad. Imagine having no representation given how far we are from the equator (damn gulf stream..:D.....we'd be champs without it...frozen champs).

p.s. We need a curling team...come on like. We just need 1 ice-rink with a few lanes for feck sake.

no.8

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

His comments 4 years ago pissed people off, we're not here to fund his dreams.

If he has aspirations to represent his homeland America great but don't use another country to get there.

Misery

ArmaniJeanss

FatherTed wrote: »

Surely Ireland can come up with a Curling team to compete?

As with everything else it's not just a case of getting a team together and rocking up to the games. You have to qualify against a lot of countries who also want the limited amount of places and we've failed at this so far.
We've been OK at doubles (have finished as high as 12th in the Worlds) but not so good at the 4 player version.

Richard Hillman

bnt wrote: »

The Daily Mail seems to be reading Boards - they've picked up on this. Bad news, guys - she's married, to her Curling partner.

I remember this sudden interest in Curling happened four years ago, too, and eight years ago. Last time it was the Scotland GB captain Eve Muirhead, who's skipping the Olympics this year. It seems to be a thing: people come across the Curling, start off going "what?, and then "oh, that's cool". :cool:

Looks like the Curling partner has failed a drugs test. They'll be stripped of their medal. Marriage break-down. Back on the market soon

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/athletics/partner-famed-winter-olympic-curler-12046288