Day 15 - Women's Bronze Curling

Friday I got up really early for my Women's Bronze curling game. It started at 9 am, so I left the house by 7:30 (whoa, I'm supposed to be on vacation!) took the subway and then walked over a kilometer in the rain to get to the curling rink. After going through security, I was inside by 8:30, so it all worked out.

This was a much smaller venue, only holding 6,000 people, so I enjoyed the smaller crowd. I was much closer to the ice and it was colder, but I again experienced this feeling of "I can't believe I'm at the Olympics!!" when I sat down, as they had the medal podium already set up to use after the gold game later today. The bronze game was China vs. Switzerland. I must say the Chinese team outplayed the Swiss and the Swiss skip looked like a deer in the headlights throughout the game. It was great to watch, constantly changing, but finished very suddenly. The score was 8-6, then the Swiss gave up another 4 points when they made a bad last shot at the end of the 8th end, so all of a sudden they conceded the game!! Shown below are the two skips.

Later watched the gold game, and was sad that we didn't win against Sweden, but it was a very exciting game to watch. Silver is a nice colour, too!

On the way home, I stopped for groceries, as there are too many events to watch to go out much over the next couple of days. Today we watched men's bobsleigh, hockey, curling, but the most exciting was the men's 500 and the 5000 relay where Charles Hamelin won two gold medals. Speedskating is so exciting, I wish that I had been able to get some tickets for it.

Yesterday and today were the only medal events I had, and Canada was not in either game. If I were to do it again, I would think about getting medal events that would include athletes from many countries, including Canada; but live and learn, right?