Shawn Rojeski
Shawn Rojeski
Shawn Rojeskiis an American curler from Chisholm, Minnesota and Olympic medalist. He was born and raised in Biwabik, Minnesota and attended Mesabi East High School. Under skip Pete Fenson, he received a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, playing as the third. The team was later named the 2006 USOC Team of the Year...
came dream olympic
It's any athlete's dream to say they can make the Olympic team. And it's only that much better than you can say you came out of here with a medal.
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We're getting fantastic response on our Web site, e-mails from all over the U.S. in places that definitely don't have curling clubs. We have piles of them that are actually looking for the closest curling club because they're so intrigued by watching everything.
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We're getting a fabulous response on our Web site. We're getting e-mails from across the United States. We're getting them from people who don't live near a curling club. There are piles of them from people who are looking for a curling club.
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We were determined to get ourselves up, to play well for a medal.
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We would've liked to have won, but we knew we were just playing for position when we came in. It was one of those games, we had a couple of shots we missed that we probably should have made.
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We sat down a couple of nights ago, after we lost our second game, to Italy. We were disappointed with the loss, but one encouraging bit of news was that we knew we still had to play everybody who was ahead of us in the standings. We realized if we would win out, we'd get to the medals round..
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We?re not looking that far ahead. Our first goal is to win each game. The second goal is to get into the medal round and just let it fly.
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We've played them a couple times before. We know how they play. They know how we play. We're rivals, if you want to call it that. We're rivals to the point where it should be a good game.
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We probably played the worst game of the week tonight. It's definitely a big disappointment. I put a lot of blame on myself. I came out flat. I didn't play as well as I wanted.
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We probably played the worst game of the week tonight.
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We beat Sweden, and we started playing really well. We knew we had to play a lot of good games. Everybody got a lot of confidence from that game, and that confidence has just continued building from that moment on.
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I still say we're playing pretty well. Unfortunately, yesterday we missed the last shot of the day.
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It definitely helps. I think you can make half of a shot -- not make a perfect shot -- and the crowd is still behind you. When you don't have the crowd, you might think about it more.
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We had tried the same thing the previous throw and just missed it. John came down and gave me a little fire-upper.