Canada beats US to win men’s curling Olympic bronze medal

Group Canada celebrates after successful the lads's curling bronze medal match in opposition to the USA on the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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Sixteen years after he received the Olympic curling gold medal, Brad Gushue goes again to Canada with bronze.

The Canadians capitalized on a missed last shot by American — and reigning Olympic champion — John Shuster within the second-to-last finish that turned a one-point edge into an insurmountable 8-5 lead.

Gushue received gold in Turin in 2006. Again then, he shared a podium with Shuster, who received bronze.

This time, the Canadian skip knocked his American counterpart off of it.

The Individuals took a 5-4 lead with two factors within the sixth, then Canada scored two within the eighth to take the lead. With the USA holding the last-rock benefit within the ninth, Shuster tried to knock unfastened two Canadian rocks within the scoring space however missed.

That gave Gushue two factors, with one finish to go. Canada’s third-to final shot cleared all the American rocks out of the goal space, leaving no likelihood for the U.S. to tie the match, and Shuster instantly conceded.

United States’ John Shuster reacts after a foul throw in the course of the males’s curling bronze medal match between Canada and the USA on the Beijing Winter Olympics.

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