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Mixed doubles may be over but I'm still thinking about Them-

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Stefania Constantini winning mixed doubles curling Gold for Italy (undefeated!) with an assist from Amos Mosaner.  Plus the other amazing ladies of mixed doubles curling!

Vicky Persinger of the USA Fan Suyuan of China Jennifer Dodds of Great Britain Kristin Skaslien of Norway Zuzana Paulova of Czech Republic Jenny Perret of Switzerland Tahli Gill of Australia Rachel Holman of Canada Almida de Val of Sweden

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If only I were she!

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Team USA Curling Gets Second Win After Defeating Sweden in Extra End

Team USA Curling Gets Second Win After Defeating Sweden in Extra End

Team USA Curling Gets Second Win After Defeating Sweden in Extra End Source link

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when ur ready I wanna know ur men/women curling team blorbos!

SORRY THIS ONE TOOK SO LONG TO ANSWER ANON I really had to Think About It Women's:

blorbo - Vicky Persinger! Look, I know this could be seen as cheating since she's not ON the women's team this year (just mixed doubles) but i CARE HER and I'm hoping next olympics she's on the squad.

scrunkly - Becca Hamilton! SHE CROCHETS!!!! AND LIKES PUNS!!

scrimblo bimblo - Tabitha Peterson seems odd to say "underrated" for given shes LITERALLY the skip. but im running out of slots and I do like her so shes landing here kinda by process of elimination lol

glup shitto - Nina Roth!!! When she's not competing on the global stage she's working grueling 12+ hour shifts as a front line covid nurse! Mad respect. I haven't seen much chat about her.

poor little meow meow - this one is always hard for me when its a Real people thing, kuz there either Isnt One OR if there IS a problematic person i dont....like them? kuz i dont fuck with that. anyway, the team doesnt have any assholes that i know of!

horse plinko - Aileen Geving, she posts a lot of "holding a fish" pics and i am Gender Neutral in my roasting of that activity.

Men's

blorbo - Y'all already know its mah boi Chris Plys <3

scrunkly - No one on this team is "baby" or "cute" these are like, three men you'd see outside a Nebraskan dive bar and also Chris Plys.

scrimblo bimblo - John Landsteiner probably? He isnt the type to grab your attention but he seems to have Good Vibes

glup shitto - Colin Hufman! He is an alternate so he hasn't really played, but he's funny and he's from Faribanks so I'm legally obligated to stan or Tori will shoot me /lh

poor little meow meow - Chris again. Because he goes rogue and doesn't always listen well but He's my Boy.

horse plinko - Matt Hamilton purely because he reminds me of John C. Reilly from Talladega Nights and it irritates me lol

eeby deeby - JOHN SHUSTER, STRAIGHT TO HELL. HE'S THE SKIP? DONT CARE. A N Y O N E who uses the "crotch" terminology along with "Nutted" and makes me hear that on air is automatically my enemy, he can burn in hell with Canada's guy.

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US MIXED DOUBLES WIN 6-5!!!

In the opening round of Curling Mixed Doubles, the US team of Vicki Persinger and Chris Plys defeated Australia by a score of 6-5 after Tahli Gill shustered her final throw by totally missing the US rock sitting in the button.

If you have no idea what I just said, look it up and come join in the watching of one of the best sports in the Olympics - Curling.

You'll never regret it!!

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American skip Jamie Sinclair feels at home at women's curling worlds

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American skip Jamie Sinclair feels at home at women's curling worlds

American skip Jamie Sinclair feels quite at home at the world women’s curling championship at the North Bay Memorial Gardens.

Her Canadian curling roots run deep.

Sinclair grew up near Ottawa and teamed with Rachel Homan to win the 2007 Canada Winter Games title. She won Canadian junior bronze in 2013 and skipped Carleton to a national university title in 2014.

A dual U.S.-Canadian citizen, Sinclair moved to the United States for the last Olympic quadrennial.

“I figured it was an opportunity to play on a fully funded team and play on the World Curling Tour,” Sinclair said. “An opportunity to compete on a higher level. It was too good to turn down.”

Sinclair tops Scotland

It appears to have been a good call. Sinclair has won two straight national titles and is making her world championship debut this week with third Alex Carlson, second Vicky Persinger and lead Monica Walker.

They topped Scotland’s Hannah Fleming 8-6 on Sunday afternoon to improve to 2-1 in round-robin play.

“It’s a nice position for the opening weekend,” said USA Curling high-performance director Derek Brown.

Russia’s Victoria Moiseeva and Olympic champion Anna Hasselborg of Sweden led the standings at 3-0 after four draws. Canada’s Jennifer Jones, Japan’s Tori Koana and South Korea’s EunJung Kim were next at 2-0.

Jones was scheduled to play Germany’s Daniela Jentsch on Sunday night.

Sinclair has had a vocal group of supporters cheering on the St. Paul, Minn.,-based rink in the early going. The 26-year-old grew up in Manotick, Ont., about a 3 1/2-hour drive from North Bay.

She’s looking to become the first American skip to win world gold since Debbie McCormick’s title in 2003 at Winnipeg.

“We’ve played a lot of the teams in this field,” Sinclair said. “We definitely have a strong shot at getting a medal at the end of this week. That would be the ultimate success for us is to bring home some kind of hardware to the U.S.”

‘Whirlwind’ year

Carlson said the team really found its rhythm at last year’s nationals, when Sinclair beat Nina Roth for the title. Roth earned the qualification nod for the 2017 worlds based on Order of Merit points and edged Sinclair in the 2018 Olympic trials final.

Roth did not participate in this month’s American playdowns. Sinclair beat Cory Christensen in the final and had a short turnaround to get ready for North Bay.

“It’s been a whirlwind,” Sinclair said. “I think that’s the best way to describe it.”

Her team has posted some solid results this season, winning the Shorty Jenkins Classic in Cornwall, Ont., last September and taking the U.S. Open crown in Blaine, Minn., a few months later.

Sinclair also played in two Grand Slam events and has risen to No. 16 in the world rankings. Her move to the United States was a big decision, but the carrot of potential international competition was appealing.

More opportunity in U.S.

She’s also playing in an American curling hotspot and can devote herself to the sport on a full-time basis.

“I could have played on a Canadian team for sure but we would have had to solely rely on sponsorship and really grinding our way through the regionals, provincials and that,” she said. “In the U.S., the depth of field isn’t there and there was the opportunity to be fully funded so that we could afford to travel to [international events].

“You can get the points and then you can get invited to the Slams quicker than you could on the Canadian side. The funding was a big part of it and the depth of field as well.”

Sinclair was poised in the final end against Fleming on Sunday, scoring a deuce to move into sole possession of sixth place. Next up for the U.S. team are games against Sweden and Japan on Monday.

“She’s been around the game for a long time, she’s actually a student of the game,” Brown said. “She watches a lot of curling, she practises non-stop. She’s always working.

“Curling is her life really, which is fantastic to have the opportunity to do that, someone so young but talented.”

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Jamie Sinclair: Putting Band-Aids On My Heart And Saving The Date For Opening Ceremony

Jamie Sinclair is a curler who, along with teammates Alex Carlson, Vicky Persinger and Monica Walker, won the 2017 U.S. championships and was part of the winning 2017 Continental Cup team. Sinclair is blogging for TeamUSA.org ahead of the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. Download ... http://ift.tt/2E8FcCK

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If only I were she!

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Olympic Curling Hopeful Jamie Sinclair Shares The Ups And Downs Of Her Life As A Military Kid

Jamie Sinclair is a curler who, along with teammates Alex Carlson, Vicky Persinger and Monica Walker, is vying for a spot on her first Olympic team. http://ift.tt/2yLcNji