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February 20, 2006
C is for Curling
Someday our kids will ask us, where were you when Japan beat Italy in women's curling at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics? And I will say, I was watching it live on television. Then someone will pipe up, did you have satellite NHK or something? And I'll say, yes, it's a long story.
A side note to the jubilation: both the Italian and Japanese curling coaches mainly speak to their players in English. The Japanese coach is evidently Japanese-Canadian. That kind of know-how only comes from the maple leaves.
Update: Then they lose to the Swiss, and I have to start blogging actual content again!
Posted by marxy at February 20, 2006 7:58 PM
Comments
I was trying to think of some kind of Jesse Owens / Hitler scenario in a curling context, and I just couldn't.
I think this should be a bar game - if there is a curling bar anywhere in Tokyo, please let me know and I am there!!!
Posted by: DB at February 20, 2006 9:05 PM
Perhaps the previous post would have been better timing, but I feel required to share this.
The Japanese curling team may be cool and all, but have they made a metal video that's even half as cool as the Swedish women's team? I didn't think so.
Posted by: nat at February 21, 2006 2:12 AM
Isn't there some type of bar game that involves sliding wooden discs on polished wood? I remember the big long tables and getting my hands covered in sawdust from them as a kid...
...when my Dad would forget me at the bar.
Posted by: Rory P. Wavekrest at February 21, 2006 10:36 AM
Such a bar game does exist and is still playable at the bar Doc's Clock in San Francisco's Mission District.
Posted by: Slim at February 21, 2006 2:52 PM
Posted by: Chris_B at February 21, 2006 8:26 PM
Obviously one learns better playing with the (or the closest approach to the) real thing:
http://www.fetchfido.co.uk/games/monkey_curling/monkey_curling.htm
Posted by: JB at February 22, 2006 9:39 AM
The guys from google are obvious fans of this blog:
http://www.google.com/logos/olympics06_curling.gif
Posted by: JB at February 22, 2006 2:13 PM