As a small comment on the Women's curling standings, after looking at all the match-ups, I think whoever wins the China/Switzerland game on the 17th will determine who gets 4th place. The nice thing is with Sweden winning again today and Great Britain with three more easy games, 4th place might truly be 4th place which would give Canada a great shot at getting to the gold medal game. I have to agree with Joan McCusker talking about the lack of repechage. It's one thing that bugs me about the winter games is how there's no reward for these long tournaments, everything is one and done. But repechages are how most international tournaments are, and what is the point of playing 9 curling matches, going 9-0, losing once and then having no shot at playing back into it?
On the Men's side, I really hope we beat Great Britain tomorrow. Really don't want to have to play (likely) Sweden to get to the gold medal game.
The Page playoff (the system Joan was talking about) is great if there are one or two teams that are clearly the best in the round-robin. It really sucks when you get something like a tie for second - the team that wins the tiebreaker has an enormous advantage. Look at the mens side right now where you have all the top teams pretty much tied. Why should any of the teams get a huge advantage?
I guess I just don't see it as such a huge travesty. If you lose the semi you play for bronze, no different than hockey. The advantage for finishing first is that you play the fourth best team and I would expect that you start with hammer.
Another cool thing about the skeleton team is that the Canadian men are using sleds that were designed and constructed at SAIT, with student involvement. Previously, they had been using internationally designed or second-hand sleds.
Sarah Reid and Mellisa Hollingsworth of Canada tied for the second fastest final run of anyone in the women's skeleton competition. Unfortunately their other runs were not as fast and they finished well out of the medals (7th and 11th).
However, I wanted to mention that if all four of their runs had been as fast as their final run, the two Canadian women would be sharing a gold medal. If each of their runs was 58.15 seconds, their final time would have been 3:52.60.
Elizabeth Yarnold of Great Britain won the gold medal with a time of 3:52.89.
Very impressive. Bright future for Canada in the sliding events!
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Just tuned in...........any idea what time Chan skates??
it's taking really long. I would say no earlier than 11:45 MT. He's 4th up in the final group of 6, the Japanese guy goes before him.
The 2nd last group of 6 is still going now.. then they gotta flood the ice and the final 6 have to go. Seems like it takes more than 10 minutes for each guy.
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it's taking really long. I would say no earlier than 11:45 MT. He's 4th up in the final group of 6, the Japanese guy goes before him.
The 2nd last group of 6 is still going now.. then they gotta flood the ice and the final 6 have to go. Seems like it takes more than 10 minutes for each guy.
They are actually averaging 11 minutes per skater. That's insane.
Chan will be up at like 12:05 MT or so.
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China wins today in Men's Curling to go to 5-1, and I'm pretty sure they will make the play-offs (as long as they beat Russia). They only lost to Sweden by one point, too.
