[GT] February 4

[CofR]

It begins!!!

Although the vast majority of events won’t begin until the weekend, Wednesday is the beginning of our Olympic adventure!

Chestermere’s Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman take on Czechia in their first matchup of the Mixed Doubles Curling Round Robin at 11:05

I don’t believe this will be on TV but will be available online and on CBC Gem

[GirlySports]

Canada (Gallant and Peterman) are real underdogs in the mixed doubles curling event, finished 6th in last year's world championship.

You've got Italy (Constantini/Moser) hosts, defending Olympic champs, reigning World Champions (went undefeated in both)
GB has Mouat, always in the mix
Swiss has the Schwallers
Sweden has the Vranas (2024 World champions)
USA (2023 World Champions)
Norway is very experienced, been around forever, 2018 silver medalists

And this is without Australia who are ranked 3rd in the world but had two crappy world championships and failed in the last chance qualifer to Czechia and South Korea.

Canada starts off probably easy today against Czechia but are in tough tomorrow against Norway and Italy.

[puffnstuff]

Canada wins 10 - 5 over Czechia

[puffnstuff]

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/w...rash-9.7074495

Canada's three-time Olympic bronze-medal snowboarder Mark McMorris crashed Wednesday night during big air training for the Milan Cortina Games and had to be taken off the course on a stretcher.
"Snowboarder Mark McMorris had a heavy crash this evening during big air training. Canadian Olympic Committee and Canada Snowboard staff are attending to him. We will provide more information as it becomes available,” read the statement.