"Settling For Silver"

If you read any article or post about Canada's loss to Sweden last night in the Women's Curling Gold Medal Match, nearly every one of them says that Cheryl Bernard will have to "settle for silver". If you read my last entry, you can probably guess this really bother's me. Why say they just "settled for silver"? I think it should be they WON silver. Congrats to Team Canada / Team Bernard! Winning Silver at the Olympic level is amazing, and should be admired!

Another thing that bothers me is the fact that according to the articles "Cheryl lost the game twice". Hm, excuse me but were you on the ice? No. Curling takes a lot of skill and Cheryl Bernard has it, she is the Skip after all! So she missed a couple opportunities? It's not like she did it on purpose or didn't try her best, you can tell by her face all she wants is to curl her best and have the team do well.

This picture is from the Canada/USA game in the round robin part of the tournament.

On a happier note, I would like to point out that at the medal ceremony, Cheryl Bernard seemed very, very pleased and proud to have a silver medal around her neck, as she should. This may be because before the Olympics they weren't even favored to win any medal, let alone silver. She also clapped for both Sweden and China as they received their medals, showing good sportsmanship.

Since the Olympics are being very strict with copyright laws, I couldn't find a picture of Team Canada with their medals. But here is a picture of Team Bernard taken before they were Team Canada, which they found out in December 2009.

So once again, congrats to Team Canada on their win of Silver in the 2010 Winter Olympics. I am very proud of the team, and hopefully we'll see them again in 2014 in Russia! (Although I heard they may be taking a very long break as curling is very hard on their families as they are gone for such a long amount of time during the Winter)