U.S. women's curling team slides to victory over Canada in an Olympic first

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The U.S. women's curling squad was amazed to larn that their decision of Canada connected Friday marked an Olympic first.

"If that's true," Minneapolis autochthonal Taylor Anderson-Heide said aft the 9-8 nailbiter, "I deliberation we conscionable played a truly bully game. They're No. 1 successful the world."

Tara Peterson of Shoreview, Minnesota, chimed in: "It conscionable ever feels truly bully to bushed (Canada skip) Rachel Homan. So immoderate squad to bushed them, that's beauteous impressive."

Until Friday, the American women had ne'er beaten Canada — a perennial favourite that has medaled successful each Winter Games since curling was added to the Olympics successful 1998. The U.S. men bushed the Canadians for the archetypal clip successful the 2018 round-robin and again successful the semifinals en way to their golden medal triumph successful Pyeongchang.

Canada's Team Homan has for years been considered the champion successful the world.

In Friday's match, the U.S. managed to capitalize connected a fewer anemic shots by Canada. After the win, the Americans walked unneurotic down the crystal and backmost to their coaches, raising fists successful triumph.

Peterson, similar Anderson-Heide, couldn't assistance but adhd a qualifier to her effect to questions from The Associated Press: "Apparently, we've ne'er bushed them successful the Olympics before. That makes it conscionable other special."

This year's American women's curling squad — similar their Gen-Z men's counterparts — meld approachability with ambition. Alongside Anderson-Heide and Peterson, the squad includes skip Tabitha Peterson, who's Tara's older sister, arsenic good arsenic cool-as-a-cucumber Cory Thiesse, who has already won a metallic medal successful the mixed doubles event. Aileen Geving, from Minnesota, is an alternate.

Three of them person jobs different than curling, and 3 are mothers to young children. Tara is simply a dentist, Tabitha a pharmacist and Thiesse a laboratory technician.

Tara gave commencement to her son, Eddie, successful September 2024 and a fewer months later, Tabitha had a daughter, Noelle. Geving had girl Sienna pursuing the 2018 Games.

"That's the chill happening astir the athletics of curling. Your mean Joe is playing against Olympians and we're friends," Tara Peterson told CBS News Minnesota up of the Olympics. "And aft the crippled we'll beryllium down, we person dinner. We person a beer. It's conscionable a mean life."

Tabitha Peterson told CBS News Minnesota she thinks of the Olympics "as conscionable different tournament."

"It's different competition. And effort not to absorption like, ohio my God, we're astatine the Olympics," she said.

They person respective matches near successful the round-robin earlier the semifinals adjacent Friday. The are 2-1 aft Friday's match, with a triumph against Korea and nonaccomplishment to Sweden alongside the milestone.

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