Patriotic crowd cheers Canada’s curlers to victory
Donald Sutherland looked on, standing and cheering with the rest of the mainly Canadian crowd, as the home team took gold in this afternoon’s men’s curling final. Though it was not quite as exciting as the women’s final, there was still plenty of great shots and surprise steals. Canada took the lead early in the match, Norway not scoring until the 6th end. The accuracy scores for the gold-winning team were up in the 90 percentiles. They pulled off all sorts of great shots that Norway just couldn’t counter, despite their now-famous eye-burning harlequin pants.
Midway through the 10th end when the score was 6-3 Canada, the crowd spontaneously broke into their national anthem. It was a pretty stirring moment. Norway’s skip, Thomas Ulsrud, was behind Canada’s Kevin Martin; you could tell he was saying something nice about the crowd reaction.
One thing I like about curling is everyone seems incredibly sportsmanlike. No huge arguments, no ill will. A good sport, I think.
Earlier today, Switzerland beat Sweden 5-4 to earn bronze.
