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...what they were doing to watch Kim's program at 1:20 p.m. Seung Jun Lee, a 16-year-old high school student in Yangju, 30 miles north of Seoul, returned home from cram school at lunch to watch Kim skate with his family. "Maybe I will have to skip class today," he predicted amid the excitement. Even businessmen had caught Kim fever and were willing to suffer a dip in productivity during her skate. "When Kim Yu-Na perform[ed], I let all the workers stop, and we all watched together on the TV in the company," said Beom...
When German curling skip Andy Kapp yells at his teammates, imploring them to sweep their brooms faster, he sounds as if someone has poured scorching-hot water on his head. "Arrrgh!" his grunts echo throughout the Vancouver curling venue. "Push," he yells in German. "Hard! Fast!" In curling, the skip's job is to tell his teammates where to throw their stones to the house, that dartboard-looking scoring area on the ice (an explanation of how curling works requires a textbook - just know that in the end, if your stone is closest to the bull's-eye, that...
...Monday morning, the wild screaming from Kapp paid off, as Germany beat China 7-6. "You can call it Bavarian style," Kapp says of his drill sergeant-on-steroids rage. "To a skip, you can only get our emotional way with yelling. Because as a sweeper, you can put your emotion into the broom. I cannot check somebody like in hockey. So where to go with my emotions?" (See TIME's video "How They Train: Curling...
...been curling for 40 years. Though the game began in 16th century Scotland, Holder explains how curling caught on in the prairies of western Canada; essentially, he says, there was nothing else to do. In Canada, the shiny bald dome of Kevin Martin, 43, the Canadian men's curling skip, might as well be this year's Olympic emblem. Since curling receives so much coverage on Canadian television, and the teams often play long games - more than two hours, twice a day - you're bound to catch a glimpse of Martin calling shots at some point. (See 25 Winter Olympic...
...getting more ice time. "It's frustrating, yeah," he says. "It is what it is." As the youngest member of the U.S. team - he's 22 - and the alternate, Plys insists that he is in no position to plead his case with his coaches. Perhaps that German skip can teach Plys to speak...