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Fresh off capturing world curling gold, Team Homan and Team Gushue aren’t resting on their championship glory. Both teams are in Toronto this week for the Grand Slam of Curling’s Players’ Championship, where the top 12 men’s and women’s teams are playing for a combined purse of $ 300,000 in the event’s 25th year. (You […]
Canada’s Rachel Homan won gold at the world women’s curling championship thanks to an 8-3 victory in the final over Russia on Sunday in Beijing. Homan secured a direct berth into the gold-medal game after beating Russia’s Anna Sidorova in the Page playoff 1-2 game Friday. Canada swept the 11-game round-robin at the Capital Gymnasium to […]
Anna Sidorova’s Russian rink overwhelmed their Swedish opponents in Saturday’s semifinal at the world women’s curling championships in Beijing. Sidorova took a 9-3 win in eight ends to book her spot in the final against Canada’s Rachel Homan. Russia scored three in the seventh end before stealing another triple in the eighth, forcing Sweden’s Anna Hasselborg to shake hands. […]
Canada’s Rachel Homan has booked her ticket to the final at the women’s world curling championship. The Ottawa skip led her rink to a 7-3 win over Russia in today’s Page playoff game between the top two round-robin teams in Beijing. The win boosted Homan’s record to a sparkling 12-0 at the tournament. The Canadian, […]
Canada’s Rachel Homan ran her win streak to double digits at the 2017 world women’s curling championship on Thursday, defeating Italy’s Diana Gaspari 8-5. Homan (10-0) and her Ottawa crew had already locked up first place in the round-robin standings after opening the 12-nation tournament with nine straight wins. The 10th was just icing on […]
Canada has clinched first place after posting a pair of wins at the world women’s curling championship Wednesday in Beijing. Ottawa’s Rachel Homan opened the day with a 6-4 win over Sweden’s Anna Hasselborg, ensuring a berth in the Page 1-2 playoff game on Friday evening. The winner of that match will go straight to […]
The next move for Rachel Homan at the women’s world curling championship is the top of the podium after silver and bronze medals in previous appearances. Homan, third Emma Miskew, second Joanne Courtney and lead Lisa Weagle out of the Ottawa Curling Club open the 2017 world championship Saturday against host China in Beijing. They […]
It was both heart-stopping and historic. Rachel Homan’s 8-6 extra-end win in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts final Sunday night in St. Catharines, Ont., made her the youngest skip to capture three Canadian curling titles. The 27-year-old said the thrilling victory over Manitoba’s Michelle Englot represented the toughest challenge yet for her young team. “That’s the hardest win we’ve ever […]
Manitoba’s Michelle Englot needs to beat Ontario’s Rachel Homan one more time for a Canadian women’s curling title. Manitoba downed Ontario 9-8 in Friday’s playoff between the top two seeds after a 9-5 victory over them to conclude the preliminary round Thursday. So Englot needs a third straight win over Homan on Sunday to claim […]
