Word: cheered
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...bemused by watching the old guys push stones and sweep brooms in what often looks like shuffleboard on ice. But at this year's event, emotions seem to be at an all-time high. Every day, capacity crowds of 5,600 are filling the Vancouver Olympic Centre, mostly to cheer on Canada, home to 729,000 of the 1.1 million curlers around the globe. The atmosphere is even more electric than the scenes in arenas for other sports, like figure skating. That high level of interest extends to the online world; curling has been the most searched Olympic sport...
...According to the parents of the American players, however, the rowdy Canadian fans might be taking things a bit too far. "I don't like when they cheer a missed shot," says Glen Isaacson, while watching his son Chris and his teammates fall to Canada 7-2 on Monday. "It violates curling etiquette. That's the part that makes it tough to watch...
...cheer was far from the truth. Richter had to defend against a team that came out hitting hard, that constantly kept pressure on a Crimson defense that had trouble clearing the puck from its half, and that dominated in the shot count. The junior posted 19 of his 23 saves in the first two periods—one of the only reasons his team even had a fighting chance against Cornell...
...have a tradition where we have a showcase game every week—seniors and juniors versus freshmen and sophomores—a breakaway competition to see which team has more breakaways,” Griffin said. “We did a little cheer and called it the way we do [for the showcase]. I just tried to get myself in that state of mind. It’s something we do in practice every week...
...psyched to cheer your brains out at the next game, start with a trip to your closet. According to Kai-Cheng Ho ’10 on this Facebook event page, the upcoming Cornell and Columbia games will have pretty snazzy dress codes: white and black for Cornell and "Black Out" for Columbia...