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S Korea beats Japan to reach women's Olympic curling final

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By JIMMY GOLEN

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J.D. Lind (Canadian coach) is another one of our coaches for hire in the Olympics but the skill to get the job done under pressure at an international level is all about the players drive. Well done! My country folded early so I understand the tough loss for Japan but still, congratulations are due on a hard fought win. Let's cheer them on into the final! Japan goes for the bronze against Great Britain (also Canadian coached, gulp!)

It's all about and depends on the players obviously, but I still find it funny behind the scenes ;)

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J.D. Lind should be fired for his coaching of the Japanese team. Not once did they attempt any kind of knockout shot. They were constantly trying to thread the needle and move their rock into the number one position, while at the same time the Koreans were doing both, using touch when necessary but at others using force. The Korean third was a perfect example of that. If Russ Howard, who is coaching the Brits, would have been their coach, I think it may have been a different outcome. My hats off to the Japanese women's team, but this whole Olympics they have been playing at a disadvantage.

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Oh! Is it Glenn or Russ Howard for the Brits? That'll be interesting if they experiment with any Howard-type shots

It's Peter Gallant from PEI coaching the SK team. JD Lind for Japan.

Ultimately any team from any country has to play to their own strengths, so a coach can only do so much. Also the games with Japan had showed a Japanese coach during broadcast, so I don't know the extent of the coaching team, so the scale of this may be quite minor.

We've have a few articles about it but always rooms for more. If there were an actual news article that spelled it out that would have been interesting to learn about different playing and in particular the team learning styles and adjustments to be made by the coaches. Also what about the translators? You can't know how that's going!

I love the irony though that the favoured curling Canadian women are out from poor play but other partially Canadian lead teams are in the medal hunt.

Like the Germany vs Canada hockey game. One of the German players is actually from Winnipeg but has German heritage and has been playing in their European league for 5 years. So a Canadian scored on Canada! You just never know!

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family grew up with curling so if you've played it you know it better. It's easy to get started though. Some work friends even get together and that's popular. It's convenient when you have a lot of rinks

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I'm a fan!

It's very entertaining....

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Well Canada is not claiming gold where it usually does, but we finally edged up to #2 in the medal count. No way to catch up to Norway though - wow. Germany in 3rd. Other countries, well,

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MarkX: "J.D. Lind should be fired for his coaching of the Japanese team"

And how did they do last time? and where did they get this time under their coach?

It was a tough and great game. I checked the score before leaving work and saw 6 - 3 and thought it was done. Got home and saw, one of the rare things broadcast live in Japanese these days, that the score had been evened. Couldn't take my eyes off the last round. Congrats to both teams! A tough loss for Japan, but it's tough sometimes, and great others, and for SK when that final rock got the winning point it must have been nice for the home crowd and the SK team. Japan has had successes in other events that other teams and athletes fell under them in. That's the way it goes.

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Could ya guys tell why the South Korean "Garlic Girls" are popular, lol

https://nextshark.com/people-crushing-hard-south-korean-garlic-girls-curling-team/

https://pic.twitter.com/I7upYtHqDN

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Good luck

Upsets happen - just look at Men's Curling

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