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World Men’s Curling Championship

“ It’s fun. I want to enjoy the next couple

of days. Friday and Saturday and Sunday

will come quick enough and intense enough.

— Brad Gushue

The MightyMaple LeafMarcel Rocque and Ryan Sherrard know

all about the Mighty Maple Leaf.Rocque was a three-time world

champion playing for Edmonton skip Randy Ferbey back in the day. So he’s well aware the mystique of the maple leaf doesn’t need any help, but that’s just what his Chinese charges did Tuesday afternoon. So did Sherrard and the Germans in the evening.

Canada, skipped by Brad Gushue of St. John’s, N.L., struck for three key points in the fifth end en route to defeating China, coached by Rocque, 9-4 at the 2017 Ford World Men’s Curling Championship, presented by Service Experts.

The Canadians followed that by blitzing

Germany’s Alex Baumann 8-2 in a game that was de facto finished after four ends when Gushue drew the edge of the button to score four but was officially concluded in six ends.

The victories keep Canada’s perfect record intact at 7-0 heading into tonight’s game against winless Netherlands (9 a.m., MT) and Japan (2 p.m.), who are 4-3.

A missed double takeout in the fifth end by Chinese skip Rui Liu allowed Gushue a free draw for three to go ahead 6-3.

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Sweden’s Niklas Edin is keeping right on Canada’s tail in the standings.

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“Unfortunately for us that three-ender broke our back. They made a mistake and you’ve got to capitalize because you don’t get many (Canadian mistakes), and then we turned around and made two mistakes and caused that three,” said Rocque, who was honoured before the draw along with Ferbey, vice skip David Nedohin and second Scott Pfeifer for winning the 2005 Brier at Northlands Coliseum. “That three with all those mistakes, you can’t do that. They’re the Mighty Maple Leaf for a reason. You swim with the big fish in the big pond, you can’t make those mistakes.”

Sherrard also is very versed in the Mighty Maple Leaf. The German lead, who hails from Saint John, N.B., is currently getting a doctorate in cell and molecular biology at a Munich University. He laughed when asked if his first game against his home country lived up to his

worst expectations.“We knew coming in it was going to be a

tough game,” said Sherrard, who skipped the 2004 Canadian junior men’s championship squad. “They’re such a strong team. It’s David and Goliath. Now that we’ve played them I can sit back and genuinely cheer for them the rest of the way without any guilt.”

For Gushue, third Mark Nichols, second Brett Gallant, lead Geoff Walker, alternate Tom Sallows, coach Jules Owchar and national coach Rick Lang it was about taking care of business. They might be forgiven for looking ahead to the playoffs. Not Gushue.

“It’s fun, I want to enjoy the next couple of days. Friday and Saturday and Sunday will come quick enough and intense enough,” said Gushue. “The next couple of days we’ve still got to get another couple of wins where we lock up the 1-2 (page playoff) spot and hopefully the hammer so we’ve still got work ahead. I don’t want to wish days away. This is my first world championship, we’re having a ton of fun so we want to enjoy it.”

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USA skip John Shuster scored a big win Tuesday evening over Japan.


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Curling an uplifting experience Dionisio Rozalina didn’t even blink

when asked if he would pose for the picture on the front page of this edi-

tion of the Eye Opener.Hold two 44-pound (19.96 kg) curling

stones over his head? Piece of cake for a former Olympic weightlifter … provided the two journalists could get the rocks onto his hands.

We did, and he did. And fans at North-lands Coliseum were probably looking and wondering what is a weightlifter — and one who’s still built like he could compete in the Olympics — doing at a curling event?

The two-time Olympian representing Holland is here working with the Chi-nese team, doing the same thing he did with speed skating, figure skating, athlet-ics, football and gymnastics athletes and teams: helping to make them better.

Born in Aruba, a Dutch colony, Rozalina competed for years on the world stage, in the 60 to 69 kg weight classes, finishing sixth in the 1996 Olympics and fifth in 2000. After re-tiring in 2002 and establishing a fitness train-ing business, Rozalina found himself taking

an odd route back to the Olympic stage.He began training the powerful Dutch

speedskating team. When he helped it to win two gold, two bronze and a silver in the Sochi Olympics, Rozalina’s reputation at a trainer grew. So did his demand.

A former Dutch coach who was work-ing with the Chinese speedskating team in-vited him to help there. It was a tough de-cision because of his business in Holland.

“It was difficult, but I agreed to try it for two months. Stayed one year,” he said Tuesday.

One year became two years, became six years, during which time he also helped train China’s figure skating teams and their 100- and 200-metre track sprinters.

Then the curling federation called last summer asking him for help.

“I said curling team? I never trained curlers. That’s such a different sport. But I said OK, I can try it.”

Why not? He had worked with so many different sports curling was just one more challenge.

“The first time for me was really dif-ficult because I don’t know curling,” he said. “So I began to look at video to see what moves they do. Then I began to think OK, I know how to work on conditioning, which is really important. Games can be

two, three hours, (it can be) a long day. It’s important you have good conditioning.

“I know the sweeper needs power, needs that explosion. Then I make my plan, train-ing for skip and speciality for sweepers. Train them differently.”

Rozalina, who also works with China’s women’s and junior teams, found that nu-trition wasn’t high on the priority list in Chinese sports. But by the time the team arrived here, he had the curlers following a program, telling them “what they must eat, when they must rest or sleep, recover, mas-sage, sauna, all these things.”

Marcel Rocque, the former member of Edmonton’s famed Ferbey Four curling team who is coaching the Chinese men’s team, says Rozalina’s knowledge of condi-tioning in various sports is invaluable.

“The thing about him is with his exten-sive experience in multi-sport, he’s able to bring in different ideas and things relating to curling that prepare the athletes.”

So has Rozalina ever curled himself? Quick answer is no, although he says he has tried “but I broke my menisus, (while competing in weight lifting) and in curling you must go really low and that’s very dif-ficult for me.”

Instead he sticks to what he knows best – training athletes to be their best.

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“I said curling team? I never trained curlers. That’s such a different sport. But I said OK, I can try it.

— Dionisio Rozalina


Spotlight on: ScotlandVarious clubs / Alt.: Ross Paterson / Coach: Ian Tetley

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Formal name: ScotlandLocal name: AlbaLocal formal name: Rioghachd na h’AlbannachLocation: EuropeStatus: UN member countryCapital City: Edinburgh (Dùn Eideann)Main cities: Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, InvernessPopulation: 5,373,000Currency: 1 pound sterling = 100 penceLanguages: English, Scots, Scots GaelicReligion: Protestant, Roman Catholic

SCOTLAND AT THE WORLDSLast five years:2016: Tom Brewster (5-6)2015: Ewan MacDonald (3-8)2014: Ewan MacDonald (3-8)2013: David Murdoch (8-3 Bronze)2012: Tom Brewster (8-3 Silver)Last championship — David Murdoch (2009)World titles — 5Other notable male curlers from Scotland: Hammy McMillan, Warwick Smith, Gordon Muirhead, David Smith, Bill Muirhead, Chuck Hay, Alex Torrance

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If you were stranded on an island, what are the three most important things that you think you would need? Music, rum and a cigar.

What is your definition of an incredible weekend? Winning a gold medal.

What are the five things you cannot do without? Coffee, iphone, contact lenses, Asian food, wine.

What is your favourite day of the week? Sunday, relax and switch off for a day.

Any tattoos? Of what? Two. Olympic rings and my family’s clan crest and motto.

What is your favourite breakfast meal? Smoked salmon and poached eggs.

Describe your life in one word: Awesome.What is your favourite fruit flavour? Pineapple.If you could go anywhere in the world, where

would you go and why? Mount Everest. To stand on top of the world would be incredible.

What is one of the things you would put on your “bucket” list? Skydiving.

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would you go? Forward a few hundred years. Would love to space travel.

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As we pass the halfway point of the Ford Men’s World Curling Cham-pionship, presented by Service Ex-

perts, here’s a question worthy of debate: should teams be allowed to quit after six ends?

The World Curling Federation rules allow a team to quit after six ends and it has happened too often already this week. Through the first nine draws, there have been five games ended after six ends and five more after seven.

At most major curling events, such as the Olympics, the Tim Hortons Brier, and the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, teams are required to play at least eight of the 10 ends, regardless of the score. Here, only the TV game has to go eight.

So why does the WCF allow teams at its most prestigious event let its teams walk off the ice after just six ends?

And why would a team do that any-how? I mean, this is sports and in sports incredible things can happen. Weird, wacky, wonderful things.

The sports world is full of stories of comebacks, both individual and teams. In Canada, we scoff at the idea of quit-ting before the final whistle or buzzer of a game of hockey, football, baseball, basketball, tennis, cricket … hell you name it.

Because there are simply too many ex-amples of players and teams coming back from the seemingly impossible to achieve victory.

In the 1981 Grey Cup game, Ottawa led 20-1 at the half and the Edmonton Eskimos rallied for a 26-23 victory.

The single A baseball Clinton Lum-berKings trailed the Burlington Bees 17-1 in the fifth inning of their May, 2014 game. They won in extra innings.

The Plano East Panthers, a Texas high school football team, trailed the John Tyler Lions 41-17 with just over three minutes left in the game. They won 47-44.

In the 2017 Super Bowl New England Patriots trailed 28-3 in the third quarter but rallied to win 34-28.

Search Great Sports Comebacks on the net and there are plenty of examples of players and teams who refused to quit halfway through their games and were rewarded with victories.

So why do curlers’ quit? They know

they’re off their game? They’ve obviously over-matched? You’ve given up six or eight points in the first five ends; what’s to say you can’t score six or eight points in the last five ends?

There are arguments in favour of quitting early. It’s a long, tiring week. Fans don’t want to see blowouts. Playing two more ends with no hope of victory can mentally hurt a team. There’s four sheets of ice so there’s usually another game for the fans to watch.

Valid points. But the perception is all wrong. What about giving 110 per cent, about never giving up?

Why don’t teams use the final four ends to work on their game? Forget the score and use the final few ends to work on the weak parts of your game or to figure out the ice?

Swedish skip Niklas Edin, who beat Italy in six ends Tuesday morning, sees nothing wrong with the early endings.

“If the score is too obvious, one team has already won. I don’t think there’s any point in continuing the game,” he said.

Would sponsors agree with their clients bailing halfway through games?

And what about the fans who paid good money to watch? Don’t they deserve

full value for giving up their cash? “If we’re 8-1 up I don’t think its much to

watch, we’re just playing peels,” countered Edin. “It’s really bad for the teams, one team wants to get off earlier but they have to play six ends.”

Sports have a starting point and a finishing point. In football and hockey it’s 60 minutes, not 45 or 53. In golf you play 18 holes, whether you’re 15 under par or 15 over.

It is time the WCF changed its rules. Curling is 10 ends. At least play eight.

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The Russian team, skipped by AlexeyStukalskiy, has been among those teams quick to cut games short.

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Being a veteran of the Olympics, Brad Gushue thinks the NHL made a poor move Monday in announcing it won’t change its schedule to allow its players to participate in 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, Korea.

“It’s a terrible decision just from a hockey perspective. I don’t know how you don’t go to the biggest event in the world and showcase your best players,” said the 2006 Olympic champion who is seeking to be Canada’s representative at Pyeongchang. “As a fan I’m very disappointed by it. I’m sure there’s a business reason behind it, but from a fan or a pure hockey perspective I think it’s terrible to not give those guys an opportunity. And having talked to some of them I know they want to be there too.” BRAD GUSHUE


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Walstad man of many talents

Norwegian skip Steffen Walstad is a man of many interests. And to veteran journalists he’s an old soul even though he’s only 28 years old.

Walstad speaks four languages— Norwegian, English, Swedish and German. He’s worked as a journalist, golf course greenskeeper and promoter. He’s also been a film student.

“I’ve just been trying to find jobs I can combine with curling I guess,” said Walstad, who worked five summers as a greenskeeper. “That worked pretty well with the curling season.

“I liked doing film and media stuff, creating things. I’ve pursued that career as well. I really like just working with people and with ideas, and trying to figure stuff out. Like in curling, you have the tactical problems, the technical problems, trying to make the team chemistry go well. I’m really a process-oriented guy. The rest

of my team is maybe a little bit more on results, but I like the journey.”

Despite the job juggling it doesn’t mean curling’s the most important activity to this renaissance man.

“It’s dangerous to make anything your No. 1 priority. I try to live a balanced life,” said Walstad.

Now about the old soul. He worked at a local newspaper in Norway

churning out four pieces a day.“It was quite high tempo, you got to

do everything from sports, culture, youth, politics,” said Walstad, who thinks Norwegian newspapers are starting to turn the industry in the right direction.

“A couple of years ago it was really bad, but now more and more newspapers have been able to transition onto web and paid membership. That’s a reasonable system.”

But that system, he laments, has resulted in so much of it being based on clicks and discourages publications from producing strong long-form, investigative journalism.

Steffen Walstad tries to lead a balanced life.

Renaissance manBy GRANT GRANGER

Eye Opener Associate Editor


Spotlight on: U.S.ADuluth Curling Club / Duluth, Minn. /Alt.: Joe Polo / Coach: Phil Drobnick

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Formal name: United States of AmericaLocal name: United StatesLocal formal name: United States of AmericaLocation: North AmericaStatus: UN member countryCapital City: Washington. D.C.Main cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San FranciscoPopulation: 325,843,000Area: 9,372,610 sq. kmCurrency: 1 US dollar = 100 centsLanguages: English, Spanish, and over 30 othersReligion: Protestant, Roman Catholic, Judaism

U.S.A. AT THE WORLDSLast five years:2016: John Shuster (8-3 Bronze)2015: John Shuster (6-5)2014: Pete Fenson (3-8)2013: Brady Clark (5-6)2012: Heath McCormick (4-7)Last championship — Bob Nichols (1978)World titles — 4Other notable male curlers from the U.S.: Steve Brown, Bruce Roberts, Bud Somerville

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Ice conditions keep improving

Curlers facetricky or treat

In the early draws of the 2017 Ford World Men’s Curling Championship, presented by Service Experts, many skips labelled the Northlands Coliseum ice as “tricky.” That was then and this is now and it is turning into more of a treat, although it could get a little sweeter for some.

On the weekend the ice was almost frightful. But event icemaker Jamie Bourassa worked his magic and the improvement has been significant.

“Tricky,” was Swedish skip Niklas Edin’s one-word description of the ice conditions.

“Especially early in the week, it was really frosty,” said Edin. “Most of the top teams have missed a lot of draws and overcurled on a lot of soft takeouts.”

Swiss skip Peter de Cruz said Monday, “The ice has been a bit tricky, it’s curling a lot. We just have to readjust the speed of our hits, for example and make them.”

Edin said there were times the ice was “significantly” slower in some spots and faster in others. “In one path you can hit the T-line, throw the same weight on the other side and you hit the hog line. So it was too big a difference to be able to calculate it.

“It’s way better now. It’s still frosty. But it’s still down maybe about 12 feet this game (Tuesday morning), so it’s still quite a bit.

“I’m actually really surprised (about the conditions). I’ve talked to a lot of icemakers and it’s not normal to have it this frosty and it hasn’t been raining outside either, so I can’t see any reasons why it couldn’t be better than this.”

Since Saturday’s strife, Bourassa maintains, the ice has been good.

“The first day we had a little bit of a frost

issue, and the rocks were sharp because we just did them,” said Bourassa. “The two of those things made it a little tough. But after Saturday, Sunday’s draws were really good and since then every draw has got just that much better.

“More than anything we just had an issue before we got started where we had a little humidity in the building, and then when it rained we couldn’t bring outside air in to get rid of it, so it just took a little bit longer to get it out.”

United States skip John Shuster has been more than pleased with Bourassa’s work.

“As usual, at world championships, as the ice gets broken in and gets settled in and the icemaker gets a 100 per cent grasp of the building and the rocks wear down some of that sharpness they have early in the week, the ice gets better and better. The last three games it’s been nothing short of spectacular,” said Shuster.

Shuster recalled some bizarre ice conditions caused by weather and increased spectators at the final of the U.S. national championship in Everett, Wash.

“I had to throw an in-turn draw instead of an out-turn draw with my last one. I would have had to throw it 35 feet different in speed. We had one side of our sheet that was frosted up and it would’ve been an utter guess on speed,” said Shuster.

By GRANT GRANGEREye Opener Associate Editor


Claudio Pätz (above) of Team Switzerland looks up to hisdecorated curling sister Alina, a two-time world women’s champ.

While growing up near Zurich, Alina Pätz always looked up to her

big brother Claudio, especially when it came to curling.

Now it’s her that owns the bragging rights when the Pätz family gathers. And while she still looks up to him, it’s only because he’s several inches taller than her.

Alina, who just turned 27, is a two-time world women’s champion. She won as an alternate for Mirjam Ott when Switzerland captured the world women’s curling title in Lethbridge in 2012. She’s been skipping her own team since 2013 and won the 2015 world title at Sapporo, Japan, beating Winnipeg’s Jennifer Jones in the final. Alina also represented Switzerland in the recently completed 2017 women’s worlds in Beijing won by Canada’s Rachel Homan, but finished out of the playoffs with a 5-6 round-robin record.

She played lead for Claudio, who turns 30 on the same day Canada becomes 150 years old, when they came second at the 2010 European mixed championship. Alina and her husband Sven Michel won the 2011 world mixed doubles championship.

There’s no doubt Lil’ Sis has quite the impressive resume.

“She inspires me what she did,” said Claudio, who plays third for Swiss skip Peter de

Cruz. “She was always looking up to me, and now I’m looking up to her. She is the star of the family now, it’s not me. But I’m fine, I like that. It’s good.”

But maybe he can level the eye contact this week. Since losing to Canada in the opening draw Saturday, Switzerland has reeled off six consecutive wins at the 2017 Ford World Men’s Curling Championship, presented by Service Experts. A gold medal for the Swiss men Sunday would be a first step toward catching up to the country’s female curlers.

Along with Ott and Alina’s triumphs, Switzerland’s Binia Feltscher won world gold in 2014 and 2016, Prior to that five-year span Switzerland had won just two world women’s crowns. Those results don’t even take into account one of the best women’s team on the tour skipped by Silvana Tirinzoni.

“We have a pretty good program in Switzerland for men and for women. But the women, they do very well,” said Claudio, an accountant by trade. “We have three very good teams. Every one of them can win a gold medal at the worlds or the Olympics, for sure. And I guess they just push each other every time. One year it’s Feltscher, one year it’s my sister, one year it’s Tirinzoni. It’s nice to see.”

But Claudio, who does have a bronze medal from the 2014 world men’s championship when he was an alternate for de Cruz, is not about to sell the Swiss men short.

“It’s quite the same (situation), maybe we have a little bit less players on the men’s side, but we have two very good teams in Switzerland (Marc Pfister) and we always have very good games there, so we push each other as well,” said Claudio.

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LINESCORESDraw 99 a.m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total *Sweden (Edin) 0 3 0 4 1 0 x x x x — 8Italy (Retornaz) 0 0 1 0 0 1 x x x x — 2

Switzerland (de Cruz) 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 — 6*Scotland (Murdoch) 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 — 5

*Germany (Baumann) 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 — 6China (Liu) 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 — 5

*Norway (Walstad) 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 x x x — 3USA (Shuster) 0 3 0 0 4 1 1 x x x — 9

Draw 102 p.m.

*Japan (Morozumi) 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 4 0 1 — 9Norway (Walstad) 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 — 7

Canada (Gushue) 0 2 1 0 3 1 0 2 x x — 9*China (Liu) 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 x x — 4

*Scotland (Murdoch) 2 0 0 2 0 2 2 0 1 x — 9Netherlands (van Dorp) 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 x — 5

*Sweden (Edin) 0 2 0 2 1 3 0 1 1 x — 10Russia (Stukalskiy) 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 x — 5

Draw 87 p.m.

Germany (Baumann) 0 0 1 0 1 0 x x x x — 2*Canada (Gushue) 2 1 0 4 0 1 x x x x — 8

USA (Shuster) 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 — 7*Japan (Morozumi) 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 — 6

Russia (Stukalskiy) 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 x — 5*Italy (Retornaz) 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 2 2 x — 9

Netherlands (van Dorp) 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 — 6Switzerland (de Cruz) 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 3 — 9

* — Last rock

Team USA’s Tyler George (left) and skip John Shuster take a breather Tuesday.

STANDINGS W LC a n a d a ( G u s h u e ) 7 0S w i t z e r l a n d ( d e C r u z ) 6 1S w e d e n ( E d i n ) 6 1I t a l y ( R e t o r n a z ) 4 3J a p a n ( M o r o z u m i ) 4 3U S A ( S h u s t e r ) 4 3N o r w a y ( W a l s t a d ) 3 4S c o t l a n d ( M u r d o c h ) 3 4C h i n a ( L i u ) 3 4G e r m a n y ( B a u m a n n ) 2 5N e t h e r l a n d s ( v a n D o r p ) 0 7R u s s i a ( S t u k a l s k i y ) 0 7

SCHEDULETODAY

9 a.m. DrawA — SWE vs. SCO; B — NED vs. CAN; C — CHN vs. NOR; D — RUS vs. JPN

2 p.m. DrawA — CAN vs. JPN; B — ITA vs. SUI; C — NED vs. RUS; D — USA vs. GER

7 p.m. DrawA — NOR vs. GER; B — CHN vs. USA; C — ITA vs. SCO; D — SUI vs. SWE

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edmonton welcomes athletes, coaches, families & spectators to the 2017 ford world men’s curling championship.

proud host city

a salute to past champions

Jeff Stoughton (left) and his 1999 Brier champions from Winnipeg.

Buffalo Boys ride to victoryJEFF STOUGHTON1999 Labatt Brier(Skyreach Centre)

Winning his second of three Briers in the ‘Last Shootout of the Century’at the 1999 attendance-shattering success in the Edmonton NHL building, it was the third of 11 Brier appearances for Winnipeg’s Jeff Stoughton. With a team featuring Jon Mead at third and Garry VenDenBerhhe and Doug Armstrong on the front end, Stoughton skipped the Buffalo Boys to a tie for first place with Guy Hemmings, won the 1-2 game of the Page playoff format over his Quebec team and defeated the Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu-born Hemings 9-5 in the final.

The Winnipeg Air Canada financial systems manager, known for his spin-a-rama delivery for meaningless shots at the end of games, won two world championships and a pair of

Canadian mixed crowns as well.Upon retirement Stoughton was chosen to

manage the Canadian mixed doubles program leading up to the debut of the format in the 2018 Olympics.

— Terry Jones, Postmedia

Attendance-shattering eventTen curling teams have won

either a Canadian, Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Trials, or world

championship in Edmonton. Throughout the 2017 Ford World

Men’s Curling Championship, those teams will be featured in the Up Close and Personal portions of

the event, and daily in theEye Opener newspaper.

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