An impressive five-headed panel debates the Olympic curling fields. Math might be involved.
Rock Logic returns with a podcast preview of the 2026 Olympic curling competitions with an impressive five-headed panel:
• Host Kevin “Curl With Math” Palmer, a senior columnist with The Curling News
• Cortina-bound host broadcaster and two-time Canadian women’s champion skip Chelsea Carey
• Matt Hall, champion competitor and oddsmaker at CoolBet.com
• Legendary basketball stats man Ken Pomeroy, now deeply into curling for a few years at doubletakeout.com
• CurlingZone and Curling Stadium maestro Gerry Geurts.
After a brief reminder of Pomeroy’s first bite of the curling bug (Torino 2006), discussion commences with the men’s fours discipline, set to begin on Feb. 11 – USA’s “uber-talented” Team Casper, Canada’s Brad Jacobs (ranked by some on this panel as a 63% chance to medal and around 70% to make playoffs), hosts Italy, Great Britain and on through the full field.
The new sweeping rules and Draw Shot Challenge are then discussed.
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Part 2 of this episode will be posted shortly – stay close, you won’t want to miss it as the women’s and mixed doubles fields are discussed.