Winter Olympics 2014

[Meanwood Villa]

The women curlers really made a hash of that last match and now have to play the unbeaten Canadians. Bronze at best it loks like.

[Eckybloke]

The women curlers really made a hash of that last match and now have to play the unbeaten Canadians. Bronze at best it loks like.

Don't focus on the 0 losses, being unbeaten in a tournament like this isn't good.  Eve herself went unbeaten at the recent European championships and lost in the final.

Eve had a shot to win against the Canadians, admittedly it was hard but not many teams have had that opportunity and the Canadians missed very makeable shots when put under pressure.  I think Jennifer Jones would rather play one of the other two teams in a semi-final.

Edit: reading some Canadian curling forums (I play the game, I'm allowed to be sad enough to look at them!!) and there is a some consternation at the thought that Eve lost on purpose to get Canada in the semi rather than Sweden.  All quite funny.

[UK Redsox]

I see that two ex-members of the Rioting Pussies have been arrested in Sochi

[Chris Jameson]

Watched the Snow boarding snow cross before work this morning, that was ace. Shame it was Beavis & Butthead commentating though.

[Meanwood Villa]

The women curlers really made a hash of that last match and now have to play the unbeaten Canadians. Bronze at best it loks like.

Don't focus on the 0 losses, being unbeaten in a tournament like this isn't good.  Eve herself went unbeaten at the recent European championships and lost in the final.

Eve had a shot to win against the Canadians, admittedly it was hard but not many teams have had that opportunity and the Canadians missed very makeable shots when put under pressure.  I think Jennifer Jones would rather play one of the other two teams in a semi-final.

Edit: reading some Canadian curling forums (I play the game, I'm allowed to be sad enough to look at them!!) and there is a some consternation at the thought that Eve lost on purpose to get Canada in the semi rather than Sweden.  All quite funny.

Thanks for that insight. I couldn't believe they blew a 3 point lead in the last end so didn't fancy their chances. Sounds like we've got the Canadians quaking!

[ian c.]

Shame it was Beavis & Butthead commentating though.

I've quite enjoyed the BBC commentary.

I've watched some of the events on German TV and their commentators can suck the excitement and joy out of any event.

[ADVILLAFAN]

British women losing 5-4 to favourites Canada with one end to go. Need to pick up at least 1 stone to force a play-off end against the hammer, so very unlikely.

[Eckybloke]

British women losing 5-4 to favourites Canada with one end to go. Need to pick up at least 1 stone to force a play-off end against the hammer, so very unlikely.

Aye, they did all they could.  Only way they could have caused more trouble would have been to have a shot at the front of the 4 ft circle if we were sitting second shot but we weren't so forcing the draw was as good as it could have been.

Switzerland played their best game of the competition and still lost the other semi so hopefully they'll not be at that level tomorrow.

We go again.

[usav]

Russians losing 3-1 to Finland with one period left in the hockey.   Putin will not be happy at all if they don't turn this around.

[fbriai]

Russians losing 3-1 to Finland with one period left in the hockey.   Putin will not be happy at all if they don't turn this around.

Will be a big, big shock if they go out at the quarter-final stage.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Russians losing 3-1 to Finland with one period left in the hockey.   Putin will not be happy at all if they don't turn this around.

Will be a big, big shock if they go out at the quarter-final stage.

And quite funny too.

[fbriai]

I had it down as 3-1 in a predictions league I'm in. The only problem is that I had it 3-1 the other way!

[cdbearsfan]

Yeeeeesss!!!

British men into the curling final.

If there's one reason to oppose Scottish independence it's because it will ruin our chances of Olympic curling glory.

[nodge]

Quite enjoyed that, considering we looked like we'd blown it with 2 stones left. Found myself giving it a big "yessss" at the end!

[UK Redsox]

Russians losing 3-1 to Finland with one period left in the hockey.   Putin will not be happy at all if they don't turn this around.

Will be a big, big shock if they go out at the quarter-final stage.

And quite funny too.

After that defeat, Ovie and co need to get the hell out of Sochi and back to the safety of the NHL asap