Canadian olympic curling trials 2012

Canada won the first mixed doubles tournament in Canada's six gold medals are more than any other nation, as are its 11 total medals. Sporting News has you covered with all you need to know about the Canadian Olympic curling teams. The Olympic women's and men's curling fields start with the six highest-ranked teams from the respective world championships, according to World Curling.

China, as the host nation, will automatically qualify even if it isn't ranked in the top six. The mixed doubles field will start with the seven highest-rated teams. Curling Videos. Klutch Curling The Rock the Talks. Dean Gemmell takes Inside Edition Curling. Curling at the Park at Wrigley.

Curling Photos. Test post. Curling Blogs. Personal hygiene has become optional. The kids have watched the entire On today's World Curling Report Gushue finally got the force he was looking for in the eighth, making Jacobs hit against two to score a single.

And that set things up for the first deuce of the game, in the ninth. Gushue played a terrific end and got a slight miss from Jacobs on last rock. Jacobs tried a hit and roll but left his shooter exposed and Gushue was able to hit for two points and a lead. It was hard to get anything going, even energy wise. The Gushue team is one heck of a team and Canada has got one heck of a representative for the Olympics.

These guys have been great teammates for the last 12 years and we built for this. This is gonna be the experience of a lifetime. When Gushue first went to the Olympics he was a year-old kid who had never won anything before. This Gushue team went in the round robin and earned a bye to the final, while Jacobs beat Olympian Kevin Koe in the semifinal on Saturday. Gushue and his teammates set a light schedule for themselves in the fall, playing in only three events before the trials.

To a man, they believed that helped them to be at their best in the trials. Team Walker, with Heather Rogers playing lead instead of Scotland who recently had a baby , doubled B. Team Walker is an up-and-coming foursome, having finished third at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, with a slightly different lineup as Rachel Brown played lead. Walker nee Crocker is the Canadian Junior champion and a World Junior silver medallist and followed that up with back-to-back Canadian University titles in and Cameron is no stranger to playing in prime time having competed at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, finishing second with skip Michelle Englot, losing the final to Rachel Homan.