Eve just gave up 4 pts to Germany in the 10th end. Germany had the hammer in the 10th but were down by 1pt.

Eve looks like she has trouble finding the right draw weight. She attempted to draw to the button with her 1st stone, but almost threw it out of the house (it barely stayed in).

I thought she was supposed to be a curling child prodigy of sorts. She looks like she's struggling at times. I know no one is perfect, but first the Olympics and now this?

I'm not getting excited, young boy.

We'll see how nonchalant you are if she fails to medal again.

Admit it young boy. You wish you were an American. I can tell by your avatar and CC...

Not that I blame you 1 bit. Life tis better in the Colonies....Aye.

Oh, and my post said nothing about "disaster of a season". I had no intentions of bringing up Women Team GB's performance in Vancouver.

And lest you forget sonny, Team USA beat Team GB in Vancouver. And we didn't spend nearly as much on our women's curling program as GB did, yet still only ended up with a win/loss record just 1 loss worse than GB.

No, the difference is our ladies qualified as a TEAM. Try it some time. You might like it. Eve has the sense to believe that's the way it should be done.

You should calm down and not overreact when it comes to interpreting others posts.

We would have been more successful had we allocated as many dollars to our curling teams as GB did (in quid). As it is, none of our curlers are "professional" or fully paid like some are in GB. All American curlers hold jobs and have to request time off from their employers to compete.

I won't argue your point about round robins except to reiterate that we beat Team GB (womens). We were down in the extra end WITHOUT the hammer, yet still triumphed in the end.

Teamwork.

RickyBobby,
I suppose I'll have to spell it out for you slowly...

Womens Team GB = selected, some full-time curlers, well-funded

Womens Team USA = qualified as a team, no full-time curlers, poorly funded

Team USA ended up 1 loss worse in the standings than Team GB.

Imagine the possibilities IF we had more funding AND some full-time curlers....

It's clear now, ne c'est pas?

Its pretty tricky to spell something slowly on a computer, but good effort.

OK, i already had that part understood. but thanks anyway.

My point was, that you were previsouly advocating the system that was used to choose your olympic team. Yes?

Then you said if you had funding to put into a team you would have achieved much more. Yes?

That would mean that you would have to select a team way in advance to recieve the funding, ie the way we did it? Which did not make much sense considering your original point.

Also, who were the professional curlers on the GB Womens Olympic team btw?

It's not that hard to have team qualifications early, then devote financial resources to the winning team.

You must know how to use Google. I'll let you look up which members were fully funded and didn't need a job.