Curling shocker: U.S. expected to lose

Vancouver, British Columbia-the United States in the curling beat Canada Monday, officially hopes to make the medal podium in a second straight games killing the American team.

The news came as little surprise to many people - even the U.S. curling team.

Getty Images Chris plys the U.S. throws a stone during their men of round robin match against France curling.

"We have never really on a path," says Rick Patzke, Chief Operating Officer for USA Curling said there was a consistent plan in place never to win, that training from these games was essentially a depreciation. "It was total buy-in", he says. By the time that adds the Olympics, Mr Patzke came, curling the fact resigned USA, it really prepared for 2014. "We started with Sochi and we worked backwards", he says.

As end U.S. team most take a Mulligan on the Olympics?

The U.S. curling teams caused the team selection process some 3: 02 and fight, whether you are looking to challenge before the next Olympics. Curler Dean Gemmell combines Kelsey Hubbard to talk about the top candidates of curling.

Instead of mounting an all star team of the best curlers in the country - which do some Nations way - curling compete clubs around the United States in Olympic trials to determine which will make it to the Olympics. This system has worked in the past - it produces a bronze medal in the Olympics 2006.

But in the last four years, curling's popularity has grown worldwide and international competition has picked up. Before China sent a team had these Games Canada to learn the sport and Scandinavian countries started to improve. At the same time, participation in the United States has been somewhat stagnant.

Mr Patzke said that 18 months ago, curling, the U.S. Olympic Committee reaches us out looking for support. "We said, we know that we have fallen to get on the stick we better."

Some of the men and women curlers in Vancouver in action to see.

AFP/Getty Images A look at some of the men and women curlers in action on the Vancouver games.

If the U.S. team, led by Captain John Shuster, won the Olympic trials, provided the USOC more support than ever to get you ready for the Olympic Games. Paid for training, sports psychologists and helped the players come without working full-time jobs so that you could practice for the Olympic Games.

But in you the culture and structure of the national team restart Money, they insisted that the United States change curling on an ambitious plan. The idea, USA curling with enthusiasm be accepted even though it was a small problem - there is no way the plan could bear fruit, in time, a decent team on the ice in Vancouver.

After the defeat in the Switzerland Germany, Denmark in these games, his captain Mr Shuster in favour of a 22-year-old alternative called Chris plys suspended the U.S. team. It was a movement of trainers who wanted to prepare for the future.

", That experience in helping me 2014, preparation of inestimable value was", said Mr plys.

The positive of USA curling made nothing angry to slow the fan mail received by Mr Patzke did. But he says he has a way to found, in a positive spin.

"It shows people care, really," he said.

Write toReed Albergotti at the reed.albergotti@wsj.com

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