Sister Hottie Curlers!!!!

[Hudson]

Ok I am a drunken Insomniac I know, but I was watching curling on the Olympics, and Damn! two hotties playing the game! CASSIE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cassiejohnson.jpg JAMIE: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/torino/curling/2006-01-30-jamie-johnson-10pt0_x.htm

[Hudson]

Another Story From Usa Today:
Curler thrives with stone-age family
By Jill Lieber, USA TODAY
Cassie Johnson feels at home on the ice. And with good reason.

Cassie Johnson, 24, is the skip and leader of the U.S. women's Olympic curling team.
By Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY

The 24-year-old skip and leader of the U.S. women's Olympic curling team and her sister Jamie, 25, the vice-skip, grew up at the Bemidji (Minn.) Curling Club, able to hold brooms in their hands almost from the moment they could walk. (Related item: USA TODAY 10.0 interview with Jamie Johnson)

While their parents, Tim and Liz, winners of multiple state and national curling titles, spent hours in the arena practicing their skills or battling it out in league games, the two Johnson girls passed the time taking turns sitting on the 42-pound granite stone playing pieces and sliding across the ice. When Cassie turned 5, she and Jamie, then 6, graduated to throwing "little rocks" (a 17-pound plastic model designed for junior curlers) instead of riding on them.

And that was that.

"Curling was a huge family sport — our lives totally revolved around it," Cassie Johnson says. "I got totally hooked."

The sport is in Cassie Johnson's heart and soul, as well as her genes. She was born to be a skip, bred to be a champion and destined to be an Olympian. Her best coaches, stiffest competition and most supportive fan club always have been the folks seated with her at the family's dinner table.

"Many, many times we'll create a Johnson family event," says Tim, 52, a press operator who makes panels of a plywood substitute for the Ainsworth Corp. "On Sundays, when there's not much going on, we'll meet at the curling club, make up games and have lunch afterwards."

Says Liz, 54, who works in the offices of Peterson Sheet Metal: "It's hard to determine who's the most competitive curler in the family. We're all competitive but in different ways."

Big leagues

But it's the Johnson sisters who have thrived in competition on the highest stages.

At the February 2005 Olympic team trials, Cassie threw a perfect draw shot with the final stone in the 11th end to give her team a dramatic 5-4 victory against the Debbie McCormick rink, clinching the Olympic berth.

It was a last-second field goal, a three-point shot at the buzzer and a walk-off home run all rolled into one.

To score the winning point, Cassie had to place her stone closer than McCormick's to the center of the house, the group of concentric circles — the large frozen bull's-eye — at the end of the sheet of ice. Her margin of error? Six inches. Cassie calls it the greatest shot of her life.

The Johnson sisters seem to collect big moments. Fourth-generation curlers on their father's side, Cassie and Jamie won the silver medal at the 2005 World Championships and the gold medal at the 2002 Junior World Championships — the first USA junior girls team in history to do so.


Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY
The Johnson family, clockwise from left: mom, Liz; dad, Tim; sister, Jamie; and Cassie.


"After we won the Olympic trials and we finished second at Worlds (in March 2005), our lives changed," Jamie says. "People started saying, 'Wow, this team is really good.' Before that, there were a lot of people who thought we were too young and too inexperienced to be any kind of threat."

Says Cassie: "I'm sure we were underestimated at the World Championships. Nobody had ever seen us before. It gave us the underdog advantage. But that's something we're not going to have at the Olympics. We've certainly made a name (for) ourselves."

Having had such a strong, supportive familial influence throughout her curling career, it's not surprising that when Cassie Johnson filled in the remaining two spots of her team, on what would eventually become the 2006 U.S. Olympic team, she focused on creating a second family.

"Friendship is very important to her," her mother says. She selected Maureen Brunt, 23, of Portage, Wis., in the spring of 2001 because, Cassie says, she has a "great personality." She selected Jessica Schultz, 21, of Anchorage in the spring of 2004 because, Cassie says, "she's really positive."

They're intertwined on and off the ice. The Johnson sisters share an apartment in Bemidji, and Brunt and Schultz, who relocated to be able to devote their time to training as a team for the Olympics, live in a complex across the street. June 10, Jamie will be married to Nate Haskell; Cassie is the maid of honor, Brunt is a bridesmaid and Schultz and Courtney George, 19, of Duluth, Minn., the alternate on the Olympic team, are attendants.

I know Yawn!!!

[BIV]

http://www.bemidjistate.edu/atc/images/about/staff/Cassie_J.jpg

[Mommadeez4u]

rawwwwwwwwwwwr. I would two man luge with her anyday.

[HockeyHelmet]

Im taking up Curling

[ih8Uboo-boo]

Im taking up Curling

I'm taking up Straightening....


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[Mother Shucker]

Cute, but not thread worthy. I would have kept it in the Olympic thread.

[FreeTheCricket]

The olympics are an untapped resource of incredible hotties from all over the world.

Anybody see our hottie snowboarder, Lindsey Jacobellis?
http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/4528/sbx268kd.jpg

[Hudson]

Told you there were hot Curlers!

[funnybonez]

The olympics are an untapped resource of incredible hotties from all over the world.

Anybody see our hottie snowboarder, Lindsey Jacobellis?
http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/4528/sbx268kd.jpg
I saw her with a 100yrd lead near the finish line and decided to show off and fall on her ass. 2nd Place whipped by her to take Gold!!
But I tapped the virgin hotties!!

[protijy]

more hot curling chicks!


http://www.thecurlingnews.com/images/photo_header.gif


http://images.theglobeandmail.com/archives/RTGAM/images/20051031/wcurl1031/greatsportofcurling.jpg



and for Jimmy its alill disabled Curling

http://www.usacurl.org/events/2003_04_season/2003%20Wheelchair%20Nationals/wheelchair%20curling%201.jpg

[Coffee Diva]

The olympics are an untapped resource of incredible hotties from all over the world.

Anybody see our hottie snowboarder, Lindsey Jacobellis?

You mean the failure? She has brought shame upon our nation. I shun her and her family. Gimme the curlers.

[FreeTheCricket]

You mean the failure? She has brought shame upon our nation. I shun her and her family. Gimme the curlers.

Yes, she certainly did fuck up, didn't she? What an asshole move by her. I was hoping she hurt herself and wouldn't even get a medal after pulling that shit. That was utterly classless. Although, hopefully that gave millions of fathers across this great land the opportunity to look at their kids and say, "See? You NEVER celebrate until the competition is totally done. Anything can happen, and if you celebrate early, you could end up looking like and ass in front of the whole world."

[Hudson]

Yes, she certainly did fuck up, didn't she? What an asshole move by her. I was hoping she hurt herself and wouldn't even get a medal after pulling that shit. That was utterly classless. Although, hopefully that gave millions of fathers across this great land the opportunity to look at their kids and say, &quot;See? You NEVER celebrate until the competition is totally done. Anything can happen, and if you celebrate early, you could end up looking like and ass in front of the whole world.&quot;
$100 says she went back to the village and spent the better part of the night sobbing and crying to the point her roomie thought about smothering her with a pillow.

[sknight]

Fucking Anthony. Now I've been watching Curling all day.

[Outer Limits]

Actually what Lindsey Jacobellis did doesn't really bother me at all. She was just being a goofy kid and she admitted that she probably made a mistake but big deal. That's what they do in that sport, they showboat and play it up big for the crowd. That seems to be a large part of what snowboarding is about. Ok, so this time she didn't come out being the top winner. But maybe to her and some of her snowboarding teammates winning a gold medal above all else really isn't everything.
I kind of find her attitude to be rather refreshing.
And I'm not a young guy and I never even saw that type of snowboarding before watching that day on TV. So I have no special agenda.
I don't feel she disgraced or disrespected the USA at all. I'd rather see an athlete having a bit of fun then see some of the cheating and backstabing that always seems to come along with the 'must win at all costs' attitude. And only winning a silver medal at the Olympics amounts to failure.

[Rob]

I'm taking up Straightening....


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