U.S. Women’s Olympic Curling Team Beats Britain in Overtime

The U.S. Women’s Olympic Curling team, behind from the start, fought back to beat Great Britain in overtime.

Nicole Joraanstad of USA releases the stone as Allison Pottinger (L) and Natalie Nicholson sweep during Women's Curling at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. Alex Livesey/Getty Images

There were still too many missed opportunities and bad passes. The strategy was still too conservative at times, and simply off at others.

Despite that, the U.S. Women’s Olympic Curling team, behind from the start, fought back to beat Great Britain in overtime, earning their second victory in Olympic play.

Granted, it was Great Britain’s 19-year-old skip Eve Muirhead missing key shots that got the U.S. into the eleventh end, and got them the win, but the U.S, team didn’t miss in the crucial eleventh end. U.S. skip Debbie McCormick buried shot rock with only a sliver exposed, and Muirhead was not able to hit that sliver.