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When German curling skip Andy Kapp yells at his teammates, imploring them to sweep their brooms faster, he sounds as if someone has poured scorching-hot water on his head. "Arrrgh!" his grunts echo throughout the Vancouver curling venue. "Push," he yells in German. "Hard! Fast!" In curling, the skip's job is to tell his teammates where to throw their stones to the house, that dartboard-looking scoring area on the ice (an explanation of how curling works requires a textbook - just know that in the end, if your stone is closest to the bull's-eye, that...
...Monday morning, the wild screaming from Kapp paid off, as Germany beat China 7-6. "You can call it Bavarian style," Kapp says of his drill sergeant-on-steroids rage. "To a skip, you can only get our emotional way with yelling. Because as a sweeper, you can put your emotion into the broom. I cannot check somebody like in hockey. So where to go with my emotions?" (See TIME's video "How They Train: Curling...