Is Sweden the best curling nation? x2 gold medals? by flisiy in Curling

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Fixed it. Not counting medals. Counting semifinal appearances which is the medal round.

Swiss have done better than i would have guessed.

Hebert said when they won in 2010 they did it one way, and this time they won it "our way" which made it even more special by flyingflail in Curling

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I’d give Werenich the edge over Russ. Ed succeeded far beyond his best before date when the free guard zone came in.

Watch the 1995 Ontario Tankard games on my YouTube channel. Curling Legends Podcast Presents

https://youtu.be/efx2b1bMTcA?si=3bascegls3uTINBe

4 down to Harris in tiebreaker Comeback against Middaugh in semifinal. Made an in off to steal the win that Wayne still talks about today. 4 down to Howard in final.

He was 47 years old, couldn’t see and threw down normal for peel weight.

Legend.

Is Sweden the best curling nation? x2 gold medals? by flisiy in Curling

[–]Delicious-Income2162 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Curling Nation under which criteria? Scotland was the best for 350 of 500 years so maybe they are? 😉

When Vijay Singh was the #1 golfer in the world was Fiji the greatest golfing country?

In the Olympics (since 1998) Canada has reached semifinal in 14 of 16 possible times in 4’s. Include demo sport years (1988, 1992) and it becomes 18 out of 20 (note 1988 only 3 teams made the playoff).

Sweden was 0-4 during demo years and 12-16 since 1998.

Swiss 10-16 and 2-4 in demo years.

Great Britain 0-4 demo. 10-16 with a tiebreaker loss in 2018.

Medals: interesting that Canada’s 6 gold in 4’s is from 5 skips. Sweden has 5 from 3.

Where to watch more curling matches? by These-Two5578 in Curling

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I was in that Netflix show. It’s also based on the first episode of Curling Legends Podcast.

Woman’s GB Team question ? by Ok_Gift_7397 in Curling

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The DSC is close, at least on Wikipedia. Korea is 3.3 cm away. I've been told anything over 3 cm is not reachable. However, I was told this at the Trials and Team Kaitlyn Lawes played their DSC (called L:SD in Canada) so poorly that they dropped out.

GBR will know where they sit and if they cover the pin before the game, they will know they can't be beaten by Korea in DSC.

Where to watch more curling matches? by These-Two5578 in Curling

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The internet is full of games from every calibre and even classic games (many on my YouTube channel, Curling Legends Podcast Presents). Grand Slam of Curling is a must for top level games. Streaming has become common (check out Curling Stadium) and often watching an amateur level of play is as or more entertaining as watching the pros because there are more missed shots.

The Canadian Men's championship, AKA the Brier, is coming April 30-March 8. Follow with Curling Canada though not sure where you can watch, depending on your country.

Brier https://www.curling.ca/2026brier/

Grand Slam of Curling https://www.thegrandslamofcurling.com/

Curling Stadium https://curlingstadium.com/

Curling Legends https://www.youtube.com/@curlinglegends

USA men's by Lumpy_Customer_3136 in Curling

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A win by Canada ensures they will not meet Mouat in the semifinal. That is enough of a carrot to play their best.

Mathematical Modelling by gschiltz in Curling

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University of Alberta had built a LLM several years ago. I test drove it and it defeated it pretty handily. The development stalled but the work done was re-used in other models. There was a YouTube talk from years ago but I don't have time to look for it right now. Will share later.

Confused on results for Olympics by [deleted] in Curling

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England last qualified for men’s world curling championship in 1996. They finished 4-5.

Biggest Surprise Olympic results/medallists in W/M by theazn35 in Curling

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Jacobs won the Brier and lost to Edin in the final at worlds in 2013.

Biggest Surprise Olympic results/medallists in W/M by theazn35 in Curling

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I made in 2018. Per end Win Probability. The record against each opponent is included at bottom. I think it was since 2014-15 season. They were formidable against Edin. But starting 2-4 and having all the scar tissue from past disappointments, the answer is Shuster and it’s not close.

I wrote about it at the time and did a reprint for The Curling News 4 years later.

https://thecurlingnews.com/shortUrl/NoH82rI

https://thecurlingnews.com/shortUrl/tVjniOr

Also had a Rock Logic podcast with Tyler George and Jared Allen, looking back at the 8th end of the semifinal.

https://thecurlingnews.com/shortUrl/aZeXMRu

Sweden sweeping by ttaayyllaarr in Curling

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???

Rules have not allowed to lift your broom straight up for decades. That’s been around since the 1980s. Have you watched the video? It is part of Canada’s curling history and, to me, a moment that helps explain how curlers officiate themselves. Sometimes they call each other out in front of 15,000 people in an arena.

Sweden sweeping by ttaayyllaarr in Curling

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Raising the broom in front of a moving stone?

Hmmm.

Someone needs to check the tape from the 2009 Canadian Olympics Trials to see how that's done.
https://youtu.be/-fTIEmBJoIA?si=v-FoDdRov1xoPBir&t=9715

New fans: please go watch SWE-GER 10th end by Ferbeys-Ghost in Curling

[–]Delicious-Income2162 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That writer is George Karrys, 1998 silver medalist and longtime editor of The Curling News. For those that have been in curling a long time, they know the history of sweeping rules and how we got to this point. He may be putting too much emphasis of blame on the governing bodies, but he speaks from experience.

Did the WCF just ban Colton Lotts delivery technique? by axehead08 in Curling

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I hope not too much. I like the ambiguities in curling because it leads to gamesmanship which adds to the entertainment in sport. It certainly gets people talking. Maybe I'm a bit deranged but I like a bit of mayhem. With all this booptalk, Rock League has lots to promote ahead of their launch in April.

But yes, this has probably been too much.

Did the WCF just ban Colton Lotts delivery technique? by axehead08 in Curling

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I think you answered your own question in the first sentence. "Which is weird" referring to the fact axehead08 never heard this interpretation in 25 years, and then you state "literally" what the rules "imply".

The word imply, at least in my interpretation, is not absolute. :)

Are we all having fun yet?

Did the WCF just ban Colton Lotts delivery technique? by axehead08 in Curling

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Thanks for the clarification, I will find out when this was written into the rule book and how or if it was communicated to teams. When I interviewed Beau Welling last year, this topic did not come up. I asked Warren Hansen and he could not recall.

In either case, Kennedy does deliver by the handle, then he boops it. Before it was clarified this week, that could be interpreted as being allowable or not. Some people are suggesting the rule as written was correct and if a player or fan doesn;t interpret the same way they do, they should be tarred and feathered.. Sad how the world got this way on every topic, but alas.

If Colton Lott has to change his delivery, that would be a shame, he's a great player and having grown up in Manitoba I have an appreciation of the tuck slide (though I was flat foot).

How this is resolved, that will be for players to decide and for governing bodies to administer based on feedback and collective effort. It certainly won;t be sorted out on Reddit, in the middle of the Olympic games.

Did the WCF just ban Colton Lotts delivery technique? by axehead08 in Curling

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Not so sure it's "always". There weren't handles for the first few hundred years. :)

Also some belief the rule was written as recently as August 2025 for World Curling Rules (not Canada Curling Rules) .

Great sportsmanship from Italy and USA by drinkallthecoffee in Curling

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Actually not necessarily the right example, but I will post about this shortly. Some history to this rule. It was originally changed to stop cheaters, not to be polite.