OK, some of you are saying what the heck does this have to do with kayaking?????  Answer:  Absolutely nothing, but, it’s my blog and I can write what I want. Besides, curling is almost over.
The US won it’s first ever medal in curling today, a Bronze.  Edging out Great Britain in the last end where GB had a rock in the house that could tie the match and take it to extra ends,  The US had the hammer and curled the last shot around the gaurd, bumped out the rock and sat proud as you please closest to center.  This ended the match at 8-6.
Oh yeah, there was a Gold- Silver match too.  Canada seemed to have the touch today while Finland was a bit off the mark.  Finland came out and gave Canada the wakeup call in the first end by going ahead 2-0.  In the next end, Canada tied it up at 2-2.  Canada went on to score one in each of the next 2 ends then answered by Finland in the 5th end to make it 3-4.  End 6 became the deciding factor when Canada scored an astounding 6 points!  I believe this to be unheard of in olympic competition.  Now with the score at 3-10, the match continued to the 8th end where Finland scored one more point. Final score 4-10
Way to go Canada!!

Yeah, I like curling!

Tony Olsen