>congrats to the UK curlers

So exciting, as Bel says, right to the last thingy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/curling/newsid_1835000/1835582.stm. We are all now such experts and can discuss all the finer points of the sport - "steals", "those big round heavy thingamies", "those nifty little brushes" - yes, our first gold since Torvil and Dean's "Bolero" - does anyone other than the British remember them?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1551000/1551196.stm
I stayed awake for the 11.30pm final stone but chickened out of the 3am medal ceremony. Congratulations to Canada for bringing home a bronze after a close semi-final and sorry to Switzerland who were so close to gold in the final.

With our other medal (bronze) in the skeleton (or other new favourite sport)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/
luge_and_skeleton/newsid_1835000/1835111.stm(delete the return in the middle which I added to stop it going wide)we get our biggest haul of medals since the 1930s (sad isn't it? - I hadn't realised that our sights were set so low, we'd better get better at influencing the judges!!)http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/features/newsid_1833000/1833017.stm