I decided to watch the Olympics at CBC and ended up watching the 4-men bobsled heats. The report only focussed on the Canadian sleds and the leading teams. In this sport that’s generally either Switzerland, Germany or Russia. The final heats are Sunday.
I briefly watched Canada’s gold game curling: to be honest, I’ve got no idea what this sport is all about. For that matter, cricket is one of those sports that I don’t understand either. Curling reminds of the Dutch boardgame ‘sjoelen’ (Dutch) and even ‘klootschieten’. It surprised me to find out that there’s a “Dutch link” to the sports: the first painting showing ‘curlers’ was painted by Flemish painter Brueghel. Somebody should make a ‘curling’ videogame1.
1 Somebody already did that. A Canadian too.