Some crazy shit happened in curling. We won our first ever gold medal after starting round robin play 2-4 and Canada didn’t medal at all. And look at our team. I would have expected them to crush the dads of elementary school kids beer drinking games but not necessarily Olympic curling. I wrote them off halfway through round robin play. But they come back strong to win 5 in a row versus the best teams in the world. Shuster has proved to be an unshakeable skip and playmaker under pressure. He was able to throw a shot rock in the 8th end to get the US 5 points and take a 10-5 lead.
The US team was really fun to watch. Matt Hamilton and Shuster were the most vocal and their back and forths, at times almost bickering, from opposite ends of the ice gave you some good insight into the game. You could also tell that Hamilton was probably trying to position himself as one of the next leaders of U.S. curling. They knew everyone had written them off so were able to play with a little abandon and took down a much younger Swedish team with stupid matching haircuts.
Curling is the drinking man’s sport of the Olympic games and I imagine they have all drank a lot of beers since their gold medal. They will be heroes on the curling rinks for quite some time.
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