Canada has just lost the semi-final in women's curling by a score of 7-5 to Switzerland. I watched most of the game, painful to watch as it was. I'm sorry, but Canada absolutely deserved to lose the game. The way the women's team has played this last week, they don't really even deserve a medal, although they will play for bronze.
As the commentators politely kept pointing out, the Canadian skip, Shannon Kleibrink, has been bailing out her team all week. But today, even Shannon was lacklustre. This was really bad curling. Sorry for being harsh, but I've seen better curling at 3 am at the Peterborough Curling Club junior-curl-a-thon. Maybe they were just having a really bad week. Either way, the team selection system for curling should undergo a serious re-examination once Turin is over.
UPDATE: The same can't be said of the men's team. After a so-so round-robin, looks like the Gushue rink is hitting its stride just at the right time.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 11:28 AM
