Team USA’s Olympic curling champions face a big match-up on the road to defending their gold medal Wednesday night.
Team USA's Olympic curling champions face a big match-up on the road to defending their gold medal Wednesday night.
For Wisconsin's John Shuster and the U.S. men's curling team, it's win-and-in. With a victory in the round-robin finale against Denmark, Team USA will secure the fourth and final playoff spot and get a chance to win a second-straight gold medal.At 4-4, the U.S. team of Shuster, Chris Plys, fellow Wisconsin star Matt Hamilton, John Landsteiner and Colin Hufman controls its own destiny after getting some help on the scoreboard early Wednesday.
To guarantee a spot in the semifinals, the U.S. must defeat a Denmark team that has gone 1-7 and scored the fewest points in men's curling during the 2022 Winter Olympics. If Denmark manages an upset win, the U.S. can still qualify under certain tiebreaker scenarios depending on which teams finish at 4-5. Switzerland, Norway and Italy all enter their final match with 3-5 records.
Shuster attempted to put U.S. in better playoff positioning on Tuesday, but his risky takeout attempt in the eighth end backfired after he clipped his own stone
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