In recipe's 7 cloves means 10+ great nic!!
It's actually pretty hard. You undergo anaerobic respiration in an instant with all that sweeping with your heart rate maxed out at 180 bps after just standing around all relaxed. And the workout on your hamstrings and gluts when you take the shot will make you sore for a week. More power to them. Hope they become the Golden Garlic Girls of Pyeongchang.
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I fail to understand why the whole world falls in love with curling every four years during the Winter Olympics. Curling has to be the dullest sport ever created--it looks like shuffleboard played on ice. Yet everyone is fascinated with this event. Why?
It is exactly like shuffleboard if the shuffleboard rocks could be 'curled' or curved by micro-heating the deck.
And I am sorry for your 'failure to understand'.
The 1.5 million people around the globe who curl totally understand.
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More exciting than baseball.
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There's no other sport that requires athletes to sweep a broom while chasing a heavy metal disc down an ice rink.
It's so frickin' quirky. What's not to like about it once every four years?
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Curling and garlic combined
Will win, though the players are blind.
A bulb ev’ry day
Keeps losing away,
And then with old Nike you’re signed!
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Garlic girls , it's probably not alliterative in Korean , but in English it's perfect.
I dream of American football withering away as a spectator sport , replaced by curling and short track speed skating.
Plus garlic
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Hugh,
In my English there is no such thing as too much garlic and at 70 I watched the Scott's Tournament of hearts instead of the the celebration of celebrity called the superbowl. Short track speed skating? The chaos and mayhem of 70 years of football is just too much for these old eyes when packed into a minute or two even if being interfered with is the same as finishing first or second.
They don't like to being called Garlic Girls, though. They officially said they prefer "Team Kim" over that name, FYI.
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"Rough up the Americans"? America has a curling team?
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Yes, America has curling teams for men and women. Curling has taken over CNBC for the duration of the games.
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Great story Go garlic girls!
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A wonderful story.
I was in Korea for the Olympics.
And I ate a lot of garlic during my week long stay - equivalent to a year's consumption. What's amazing, your mouth does not seem garlicky when done with the meal. It feels more kimchiky.
Finally, come on, be charitable about Koreans and curling.
You say most of Koreans do not know curling - heck, it's probably true for most the planet - except for 3 or 4 countries.
So, give Koreans a credit for fielding a team.
And I join others below in cheering these Garlic Girls. I hope they bring home a YUGE garlic.
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This is a classic Olympic story. And that is what makes the Olympics so interesting. In spite of all the other mess that usually surrounds the selection of site and so on.
You go girls! Garlic rules!!
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Hey, Garlic girls, have you heard of Gilroy, California?
Maybe Uiseong and Gilroy should become sister cities.
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Great story. Better than the sport itself.
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Lovely.
Takes my mind off everything else.
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This is a great story. Go Garlic Girls!!
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When will the South Korean athletes understand that enough is enough? Garlic doping is a no no.. Just as bad as meldonium.. I hope WADA will take swift and decisive action.. which they would have done by now if it had been Russia or North Korea
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Curling: A combination of physics and extreme housekeeping. What's not to love?
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Brushing is not housekeeping; it is a practical demonstration of a phase change of water. That is both chemistry and physics. And don't forget the strategy--which is arguably game theory math.
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Having watched the disgraceful behaviour of Team Canada's women's skip in using the rules to obtain an advantage I needed some team to cheer for. Good sportsmanship is the essence of curling and maybe curling can bring Canada's sense of fair play and camaraderie into competition. Fellow curlers are still aghast over our team's taking advantage of a burnt stone.
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We can always forgive a Canadian
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I have already forgiven Rachel Holman but I suspect I will go to my grave without forgiving Brian "the American" Mulroney.
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Mmmm, garlic. I'm there! Maybe some pickled garlic too?
(okay, time to make dinner.)
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Good story and fun to watch the S Korean team do well. This type of home country success on an international stage shows how the Olympics are still a very special sporting event. If they win the gold, big glasses will be back in style.
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Even in a country of Kims, this story was quite something. All five members of the team, the mayor, and one of the spectators. I counted 8 Kims to three non-Kims.
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