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Message: [QUOTE="and one, post: 4212554, member: 10475"] OK, if you want to conjecture whether Evina might come back for a last year, fine, have at it. But why drag in all these negative vibes about curling? It's basically bocce ball in a coat. I've never pushed a large hunk of granite down an ice bowling lane or vigorously swept ice like a human Zamboni, nor am I likely to anytime soon (read that as ever), but I do like to watch it. It is basically creating and solving a puzzle, creating positional advantages that evolve as good or bad stones are launched. I think of the Olympics as being in two versions; the slow Olympics (summer) and the fast Olympics (winter). The summer version is athletes fighting gravity for the most part, running and jumping and what not. The winter version is athletes using gravity and snow and ice to go 70 or 80 mph, do gymnastics 20 feet in the air on skis and snowboards, careen down an ice chute on a bobsled and that kind of thing. Screw up in the summer version and you pull a hamstring, screw up in the winter version and you could bloody die. Admittedly that doesn't seem to happen, although I don't know why. Except curling (and cross country skiing). I much enjoy the sheer insanity of the winter Olympics, but curling offers a nice respite occasionally. Let's give Jon Shuster and the rest of the curlers their due. Curling rocks, pun intended! [/QUOTE]