No Good, Bad and Ugly At 2008 Women's Worlds II
Hello. Congrats to China for beating Canada this morning. While I didn't see it, I'm unfortunately not surprised. Canada in general and Dawn Askin in particular struggled Monday, although they still won. Canada is going to have to get pumped for a United States battle tonight.
China is obviously the story so far. They have really looked good up to this point. They've put a lot of resources into the game. There should not be a shortage of people to find good curlers from. Still, their rise to the top is unexpected to me anyway.
I had the pleasure of playing against some Americans in Chicago in November. They told me there are only 15,000 curlers, of which very few curl competitively. Debbie McCormack makes every effort to come to Canada and curl, particularly on arena ice. She was in Winnipeg at the Brier practicing.
It says a lot for her and other countries that they're competing as well as they are. In theory Canada should win every year. The fact we don't says a lot about these other countries.
Good luck to all the teams the rest of this week.
Regards,
Steve
China is obviously the story so far. They have really looked good up to this point. They've put a lot of resources into the game. There should not be a shortage of people to find good curlers from. Still, their rise to the top is unexpected to me anyway.
I had the pleasure of playing against some Americans in Chicago in November. They told me there are only 15,000 curlers, of which very few curl competitively. Debbie McCormack makes every effort to come to Canada and curl, particularly on arena ice. She was in Winnipeg at the Brier practicing.
It says a lot for her and other countries that they're competing as well as they are. In theory Canada should win every year. The fact we don't says a lot about these other countries.
Good luck to all the teams the rest of this week.
Regards,
Steve
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