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OUA announces approved structures for 2021-22 season

Following the recent announcement from Ontario University Athletics outlining the board of directors’ approval of 2021-22 league-based sport plans, the organization brought its plans for the coming season into clearer ...
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Ontario post-secondary sports organizations seeking clarity on resuming play

OUA and OCAA were to meet with ministry of sport senior staff on Thursday and Friday
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Nedohin finally bursts out of bubbles as curling coach

Heather Nedohin is currently ensconced in yet another bubble — but at least this one includes her own bed and backyard.
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Curling’s future at Idylwylde still being discussed

Contrary to some rumours that have circulated this week, a final decision regarding the status of the curling club component of the Idylwylde Golf and Country Club has not yet ...
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Sudbury-area schools to host 11 NOSSA events in 2021-22

If all goes according to plan, member schools in the SDSSAA will host a total of 11 regional championships during the 2021-22 high school sports season.
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That’s a bubble wrap! Curling the big winner as final Calgary event comes to close

Canadian and world champions were crowned, prize money was doled out, curlers from across the world got a chance to strut their stuff and fans of the sport got to watch most ...
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That’s a bubble wrap! Curling the big winner as final Calgary event comes to close

Canadian and world champions were crowned, prize money was doled out, curlers from across the world got a chance to strut their stuff and fans of the sport got to ...
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ON THE ROCKS: Despite great comeback by Einarson team, Canadians fall short of podium at ...

The good news is that Canada has qualified for the Olympic Winter Games in both men’s and women’s curling.

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ON THE ROCKS: Canada sneaks into world curling playoffs, clinches Olympic berth, after beating China ...

Considering where Canada was a few days ago, just reaching the playoffs at the world women’s curling championship is a significant accomplishment.
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ON THE ROCKS: Canada in precarious spot after winning streak comes to an end at ...

Canada’s impressive run of victories came to a grinding halt Thursday afternoon and Kerri Einarson’s team is once again in a touch-and-go situation for making the playoffs at the world ...
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ON THE ROCKS: Canada’s Einarson ends losing streak but still in danger of missing out ...

In 2018, when Canada failed to win medals in men’s and women’s curling for the first time since the sport became part of the Olympic Winter Games, there was some ...
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World women’s curling championship draw postponed after members of broadcast staff test positive for COVID-19

On another surreal day in the Calgary curling bubble, Team Canada’s Kerri Einarson shockingly lost for the fourth time in five games — and almost no one saw it happen.
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ON THE ROCKS: Late-game problems costly to Canada at world women's curling championship

It all looked eerily familiar.Canada’s Kerri Einarson was shooting the lights out early in her team’s game Saturday afternoon against Switzerland, another of the top contenders in the world women’s ...
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ON THE ROCKS: Canada’s Einarson drops first game at women’s world championship after big comeback ...

After waiting more than a year to finally get her first chance at playing in the world women’s curling championship, Canada’s Kerri Einarson found out quickly just how hard it ...
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World women's curling championship gets clearance to resume from health officials

The world women’s curling championship has been given clearance to resume in the Calgary bubble after two members of an international team tested positive for COVID-19 last weekend.
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EVOLUTION OF A CHAMPION: Looking back at how four skips came together to form the ...

It all started as the seed of an idea inside Shannon Birchard’s forward-thinking mind, back in the winter of 2018.
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Fleury returns in impressive fashion in Calgary

So much for pandemic layoff rust.Despite not curling competitively in over a year and bypassing the 2021 Scotties Tournament of Hearts to tend to her newborn daughter, Nina, diagnosed with ...
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Bottcher unable to repeat Brier bonanza at Worlds

Brendan Bottcher needed a few kicks at the can before finally getting it right at the Brier.Hopefully, the Sherwood skip will get another chance at finding similar success down the ...