Why am I not surprised that, in this technical mess, that the USA is still arguing for an advantage on the second burn. They got the advantage on the first one when the lights came on incorrectly. But the spirit of the game was stepped on by Erika Brown. Needless arguments in a cordial game.
The announcers should have pointed out that Brown's behaviour was outrageous. Her argument was that she was told by an official that the sensor would be ignored and the hogline would be monitored. The problem was that she acted on the basis it was unfathomable that only she was told; this in the face of palpable credibility of the recitations of the Canadian front end and clear evidence of no hogline violation. All she had to do was ask the officials to get together and check on what notice was given. Brown comes off here as essentially accusing the Canadian front end of lying and manipulation. Just result and a horrible mark on Ms. Brown.
Obviously NOT a hogline violation. If you pause the video at 0:08, then step through the video frame-by-frame, you will see one frame where there is a distinct gap between her fingers and the handle on the stone. Keep stepping through, and you can count AT LEAST 6-7 frames before the leading edge of the rock is above the hogline.
Amy should’ve stayed in Kleibrink’s team. I think the only skip who can lead Nixon well was Shannon Kleibrink. Amy became too emotional and offensive after leaving Shannon.
Just way too many emotions flying around. Sometimes technology can fail, but there's no sense getting angry about it. Nixon flying off the handle (no pun intended) when the rock malfunctioned put unnecessary pressure on the ice technicians and officials which led to a communications breakdown. The second hogline incident was clearly a case of confusion for team Canada and there's no reason Brown should have reacted the way she did. Openly complaining to the hogline official is just classless.
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Why am I not surprised that, in this technical mess, that the USA is still arguing for an advantage on the second burn. They got the advantage on the first one when the lights came on incorrectly. But the spirit of the game was stepped on by Erika Brown. Needless arguments in a cordial game.
Brown's reaction is not in the spirit of curling...
for a sport that is largely based on good sportsmanship, that is really classless by Brown.
The announcers should have pointed out that Brown's behaviour was outrageous.
Her argument was that she was told by an official that the sensor would be ignored and the hogline would be monitored. The problem was that she acted on the basis it was unfathomable that only she was told; this in the face of palpable credibility of the recitations of the Canadian front end and clear evidence of no hogline violation. All she had to do was ask the officials to get together and check on what notice was given. Brown comes off here as essentially accusing the Canadian front end of lying and manipulation. Just result and a horrible mark on Ms. Brown.
She should try football next perhaps.
there were ZERO violations in this video, this was an EASILY avoidable misunderstanding
Obviously NOT a hogline violation. If you pause the video at 0:08, then step through the video frame-by-frame, you will see one frame where there is a distinct gap between her fingers and the handle on the stone. Keep stepping through, and you can count AT LEAST 6-7 frames before the leading edge of the rock is above the hogline.
Amy should’ve stayed in Kleibrink’s team.
I think the only skip who can lead Nixon well was Shannon Kleibrink.
Amy became too emotional and offensive after leaving Shannon.
Just way too many emotions flying around.
Sometimes technology can fail, but there's no sense getting angry about it.
Nixon flying off the handle (no pun intended) when the rock malfunctioned put unnecessary pressure on the ice technicians and officials which led to a communications breakdown. The second hogline incident was clearly a case of confusion for team Canada and there's no reason Brown should have reacted the way she did. Openly complaining to the hogline official is just classless.
This commentary is God awful.
how so?
Clearly not a hog line violation. All they need to do is look at the replay.