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Originally Posted by ratbastid
I've spent some time watching curling in the last couple days. It's fun to watch, but even with my Wikipedia-enhanced understanding of the thing, I still have to say: wtf?? I don't understand it strategically, and I'm not even sure I grok the physics of it.
That aside--This is a sport? I think I'd categorize it as a "game" rather than a "sport". It's more like darts than like skiing.
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Or golf.
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Originally Posted by guccilvr
 I don't think the win is telling of anything when it comes to hockey.
Just nice to see the cocky canadiens losing on their home turf 
and yeah, I'll take up your bet about cracking my head open on the ice..
I'll give you the skill portion (and strategy) portion when it comes to curling, but there's no way in hell I'm giving you the athleticism portion when it comes to that "sport".
..psst, there are other "sports" that I find shouldn't be under that category either.. it's not just rock sliding. |
I LOVE it.
Just LOVE IT when the Americans finally call us cocky... but you said it quite succinctly Gucclvr when you said sport "implies" athelticism. That is so true. But it's only an implication, and often a mistaken one.
Sport is play. regardless of the physicality, or mentality required.
PERIOD.
Oh yes, speaking of periods, hockey has three (love the segue) and yes, the Americans played (or Ryan Miller and Rafelsky played) an incredible game last night. An absolute joy to watch (except for the final outcome of course). Even the last goal (the one handed open netter) made the Sportscentre Cialus, Play of the Night. You usually don't see an empty netter doing that!
And yes, the country is Red, White & BLUE over that loss. We take our sport seriously and that loss certainly stung.
Here's some media feed back. By the way, I tried to catch the game on NBC last night, but it wasn't being broadcast. What gives???
U.S. buzzing after spanking Canada - Vancouver 2010 Olympics - thestar.com
U.S. buzzing after spanking Canada
Where visit by Canadian premiers to Washington hardly noticed, Olympic hockey grabs big headlines
February 22, 2010
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Mitch Potter
WASHINGTON – Canada finally emerged as a massive blip on America’s radar Monday, with screaming headlines everywhere.
And the lasting lesson for the largely invisible neighbour to the north: you need not send all your premiers south to get noticed in Washington. All you need to do is lose. To the Americans. In your own sport. On your own ice.
That was the tenor of a flurry of stateside reports that shot to the top of most-read lists throughout the U.S.
The Washington Post front-racked its account of Sunday night’s Olympic hockey calamity under the heading, “U.S. leaves Canada red, white … and blue.”
Over at the New York Times, a gentle home-page sprinkling of salt in Canada’s wound was labelled “Tough day for a land where hockey is religion.”
A more triumphant glee was found on Facebook, where one set of brazen American fans launched a new page titled “Miracle On Ice, 2010 Version (Suck it, Canada!).”
And so it went, from CNN to Sports Illustrated and even to the Los Angeles Times, where a readership wholly unacquainted with winter drove the paper’s account of “upset victory by U.S.” to the top of its most-popular list.
It was precisely the sort of noise – in volume, if not in tone – that seven of Canada’s provincial premiers had hoped to make when they arrived Friday for a rare three-day mission to Washington to tub-thumb the benefits of free trade and smoother border operations.
And at first blush, the political charm-offensive worked, replete with a rare summit between the Canadian premiers and U.S. state governors. Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell was so moved by the Saturday meeting to belt out his own improvised rendition of “O Canada.”
But as radar blips go, the Canadian political mission attained the sound of one hand clapping – the more than 200 news reports of the premiers’ efforts landed exclusively north of the border. Not a single word appeared in the U.S. media.
Washington analysts who specialize in how Canada registers on America’s scanners took the Olympic hockey feeding frenzy in stride.
“You can’t take the ‘Own the Podium’ approach and also expect to be treated as the nice guy. When you lose, they’re going to kick you in the shins,” said former Canadian diplomat Paul Frazer, a Washington-based political consultant.
“But the fact everyone seized on the U.S. victory and ignored the premiers mission isn’t really a problem,” said Frazer.
“Nine out of 10 times, when the U.S. media notices Canadian politicians it usually involves some kind of bad news. The fact that no American reports were generated means there was no bad news. The goal was to get the attention of the governors, not U.S. reporters. And that’s what they got.”