BEIJING – This was an Olympic curling disappointment, if you believe in such things, but life is a lot more fun if you don’t. You might remember the United States men winning gold medals and a few hundred thousand hearts in PyeongChang in 2018 with their let’s-just-have-some-fun approach. They lost the bronze medal match here Friday. They did not forget their approach.
If you loved John Shuster and the boys four years ago, you should love them today. Shuster, you might recall, had a history of … well … succumbing to Olympic pressure, and midway through the 2018 Olympics, he was still succumbing. Then he decided to stop worrying. What happened next was magical and sweet and wouldn’t really work in a sport with $30 million salaries and $50,000 season tickets. It was a quirky delight: A bunch of friends getting hot and winning Olympic gold.
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