Month: February 2018

There was much debate in the weeks leading to Pyeongchang about whether Team Canada was at a disadvantage heading into the Olympic mixed doubles competition because the field was filled with experienced “mixed doubles specialists” while Kaitlyn Lawes and John

In the first of our “Inside the Rings” features, Team Homan alternate Cheryl Bernard joins me and my co-host Laurie St. Georges to discuss her first few days in Korea, how Team Homan has been preparing for the start of

  Curling can sometimes be a fickle sport and just because you are one of the world’s elite curlers does not mean you will always be able to generate a peak performance on demand. Team Canada’s Kaitlyn Lawes faced that

  There was still much to be decided as the teams hit the ice for the final round-robin draw of the mixed doubles competition as only two of the playoff spots had been secured and the playoff seeds had yet

  When the field was set for the mixed doubles curling competition at the 2018 Olympics, opinions were mixed as to how the new team of Kaitlyn Lawes and John Morris of Canada would fare against a field that was

The second day of competition in mixed doubles saw certain teams take steps towards the playoffs as they reached the halfway point of the round-robin while other teams have already started seeing their playoff hopes diminish significantly. In Draw 3,

Part 3 of our Olympic preview includes interviews with players, coaches and administrators from several of the European and Asian teams that will be in Pyeongchang. Our guests include Peja Lindholm of Sweden, Manuela Siegrist of Switzerland, Glenn Howard who

  The 2018 Olympic mixed doubles curling competition started on Thursday in Korea with each of the eight teams playing two games. Going into the event, many casual curling fans expected Canada and the United States to dominate, mostly on

Our focus in Part 2 of our Olympic Preview is North America.  Our first guest is John Dunn, coach of Team Koe, who provides an insider’s perspective on the journey that has led this team to the Olympics in Pyeongchang. 

In Part 1 of our Olympic Preview – 1998 Olympic silver medalist and CBC Olympic curling analyst Mike Harris provides insights on the 2018 Men’s and Women’s Olympic competitions, Sander Roelvaag (WCF Broadcaster) provides a European perspective on Olympic curling,