ampfixer
Will someone please explain how Curling is scored? It's been on the TV steady but I still can't figure out what they're doing. Canada is on a hot streak but I have no idea why.

Wow, and I thought this was one of the easiest sports to score!  It's like shuffleboard or horseshoes (which actually has more complex scoring).  Only stones that are touching that circle are eligible for scoring and whoever is closest to the center gets a point, if that team has more than one stone closer, then they get a point for each that's closer than the closest opponent stone.  Scoring only occurs after all eight stones have been used.
 

dubdisciple
Americans tend to ignore the Olympics unless some American is really kicking butt. 
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Americans are spoiled rotten by the number one and Hollywood factory of people. Many other sports suffer because of it, and the major fault in all this is ESPN, because it is a part of a conglomerate that is after major money so they can continue being a cash cow ... and it being fun for you, or course!

GO BODE!
 

Snowboard Cross! Men's finals were tonight. This is becoming a favorite of mine.

Curling would be even more fun if they allowed checking like in hockey...
(Hey, I like both sports so why not try to combine 'em?)

Moshkiae
Hi,
 
Haven't watched anything and don't miss it at all. The commercialization of it, is so sick that I can barely watch it. I don't see a sport anymore. I'm only seeing some kind of greed!

Sorry Mosh...I removed what I thought. It wasn't nice. I just don't agree with you.
 
 
 
By the way....I watch every chance I get and I support everyone of them. I believe they were winners making it there whether or not they get metal.
I especially enjoy watching the lady ice skaters. Absolutely beautiful.

They just televised here in the states the men's 4 X 7.5km Biathlon relay. This is a cross-country skiing with shooting sessions. Truly an exciting finish between Russia and Germany in front of the home crowd. To me this is Olympic viewing at it finest. A great race! 

SKIING AND SNOWBOARDING HIGHLIGHTS

• Seventeen athletes won Olympic medals, matching record set in Vancouver.
• Eight athletes won gold, the most ever (previous best six in Vancouver).
• U.S. athletes won six of 12 medals, including three of four gold, in the new freeskiing events of halfpipe and slopestyle skiing, highlighted by a sweep of the men’s slopestyle medals and sweep of the men’s and women’s halfpipe skiing gold.
• U.S. athletes swept men’s and women’s gold in new event of slopestyle snowboarding.
• The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association played a vital role in the lobbying efforts to bring the new youthful action sports to the Games. The events were acknowledged by the International Olympic Committee for their relevance to youth and the actual activities taking place in terrain parks and halfpipes at ski resorts worldwide.
• Bode Miller won his sixth Olympic medal, putting him second on the all-time U.S. Winter Olympians list (Apolo Anton Ohno leads with eight) and second on the all-time skiing list (Kjetil Andre Aamodt of Norway leads with eight).
• Julia Mancuso extended her record with the most Olympic medals by a U.S. woman skier or snowboarder now with four.
• Mikaela Shiffrin became the youngest women’s slalom Olympic champion.

ALPINE SKIING
Gold - Ted Ligety, giant slalom
Gold – Mikaela Shiffrin, slalom
Silver – Andrew Weibrecht, super G
Bronze – Julia Mancuso, super combined
Bronze – Bode Miller, super G
FREESKIING/FREESTYLE
Gold – Joss Christensen, slopestyle
Gold – Maddie Bowman, halfpipe
Gold – David Wise, halfpipe
Silver – Gus Kenworthy, slopestyle
Silver – Devin Logan, slopestyle
Bronze – Nick Goepper, slopestyle
Bronze – Hannah Kearney, moguls
SNOWBOARDING
Gold – Jamie Anderson, slopestyle
Gold – Kaitlyn Farrington, halfpipe
Gold – Sage Kotsenburg, slopestyle
Bronze – Kelly Clark, halfpipe
Bronze – Alex Deibold, snowboardcross