Snoop Dogg Shocks British Curling Pair With Request For Photo At Winter Olympics

Snoop Dogg and nan athletics of curling made for a very overseas substance astatine nan Winter Olympics connected Friday pinch British competitors Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds moreover much shocked than nan crowd and nan millions tuning successful erstwhile they sewage a image petition from nan rapper.

Mouat and Dodds had maintained their unbeaten grounds truthful acold astatine nan Games pinch a 7-4 triumph complete reliable opponents Sweden, but were conscionable arsenic pleased to meet nan US superstar.

“We saw him astatine half-time. We saw he was sat adjacent to [US curler] Cory [Thiesse]’s mum. He asked for a photograph pinch us, truthful I americium emotion beautiful bully astir myself,” reported Mouat. The duo were asked what nan musician said to them, pinch Dodds replying: “He heard astir Bruce!”

The rapper, who was wearing a USA overgarment that featured photos of Thiesse and partner Korey Dropkin, is an honorary coach for nan US squad arsenic good arsenic a typical analogous for NBC, and took to nan crystal himself to person a effort astatine sweeping a stone. He had besides carried nan Olympic occurrence connected Wednesday, having antecedently been a torchbearer astatine nan Summer Games successful Paris 2 years ago.

The American brace hit Canada’s Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman 7-5 successful beforehand of a raucous stadium packed pinch US supporters. “It’s nan Olympics, and our family and friends are present cheering america on. Snoop Dogg’s present cheering america on! [The jacket] was truthful cool. Loved it. Coach Snoop looked bully today,” a fired-up Dropkin said.

“I’m conscionable present to cheer, uplift and possibly driblet a small contented from nan sidelines, Team USA athletes are nan existent stars,” Snoop said. “This squad represents nan champion of what athletics tin be: talent, bosom and hustle. If I tin bring a small much emotion and information to that, that’s a triumph for me.”

Mouat and Dodds will beryllium successful action again connected Friday afternoon, facing Korea successful nan 5th lucifer of nan round-robin shape successful Cortina.

Earlier, nan ice-skating pairing of Lewis Gibson and Lilah Fear made an fantabulous commencement successful their quest for nan first British badge successful their Winter Olympics subject since Torvill and Dean won bronze successful nan 1994 Games successful Lillehammer.

Gibson and Fear are successful bronze position aft nan first information of nan crystal creation convention of nan fig skating squad event. The pair, successful a motion to nan 1990s, performed to a Spice Girls medley.

“I conscionable consciousness truthful proud,” Fear said. “The week that we’ve had, building up to this constituent erstwhile we tin conscionable fto each of our activity conscionable show up for america and bask it. I consciousness for illustration we did precisely that and there’s thing for illustration this feeling.” Gibson added: “It’s our first ever clip doing nan squad event. It’s unthinkable – their support is truthful adjacent astatine nan broadside of nan boards.”