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EDMONTON (CP) _ Another major curling event is going to Italy.
Four years after Pinerolo, Italy hosted the curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics, the 2010 Ford World Men's Curling Championship is headed to Cortina D'Ampezzo.
``In Cortina curling is very, very popular,'' said Luigi Alvera, president of GIS-Cortina Sports Facilities Management.
``Cortina is actually the cradle of curling in Italy. It is people from Cortina that brought curling into ...
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Jean-Michel Menard's rink form Ste-Foy,
Que., scored one in each of the final three ends in a 5-4 win over
Pal Trusen of Norway, allowing North America to salvage a split of
the men's team matches and maintain a slim two-point lead at the
$120,000 Continental Cup.
North America leads Europe 62-60 after six draws. North America
entered Friday's competition with an impressive 24-point lead, but
Europe swept the women's team matches in the day's first draw, ...
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Canadians Jean-Michel Menard and Brad Gushue won their late draws Thursday as North America took a commanding 39-15 lead over Europe at the $120,000 Continental Cup curling tournament.
Gushue, an Olympic gold medallist from the 2006 Turin Olympics, beat Norway's Pal Trusen 5-4 over eight ends. The skip from St. John's, N.L., had a 5-2 lead before Trusen scored one in each of the final two ends to make it ...
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Ted Appelman's Alberta rink and Quebec's Eve Belisle were undefeated at 3-0 Sunday after five draws of the Canadian mixed curling championship.
Appleman beat the Northwest Territories-Yukon skip Manny Arey 11-3 in the fourth draw.
Belisle defeated Nova Scotia's Alan Darragh 8-6 and Saskatchewan's Tracy Heidt 9-7.
B.C's Brad Kuhn, Northern Ontario's Tim Phillips, Ontario's John Epping and Manitoba's Terry McNamee were all 2-1 after Sunday.
Saskatchewan's Heidt and P.E.I.'s ...
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Competitors at the four Grand Slam of Curling events this year will play two fewer ends in their matches, one of a handful of changes announced Friday by the World Curling Tour.
The switch to eight-end games was made to better accommodate the needs of the CBC and its corporate partners, who were seeking streamlined matches that fit into shorter time slots.
The CBC announced an eight-year broadcast and multimedia ...
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A decade after the late Sandra Schmirler's team brought home Canada's first Olympic gold medal for curling, the Canadian women's curling championship is returning to Regina.
The Saskatchewan city, which last hosted the championship in 1998, was named the site of the 2008 Scotties Tournament of Hearts on Thursday.
Back in '98, Schmirler and teammates Jan Betker, Joan McCusker and Marcia Gudereit returned from the Olympics in Nagano just in ...
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The Tim Hortons Brier is headed back to Winnipeg in 2008.
The Canadian Curling Association announced Wednesday that the Canadian men's curling championship will be held in Winnipeg for the first time since 1998.
``Winnipeg is always a primary spot on our list and with the new arena and the convention centre just down the street I would like to believe it will be a very successful event,'' said Warren ...
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It's not exactly the curling equivalent of the
Golf Channel but there will be more options this season for curling
fans who just can't get enough of their favourite sport.
CurlTV.com, the first company to broadcast curling online 24
hours a day, seven days a week, is expanding its operations this
curling season.
``Initially we were focused primarily around the live games and
providing fans with the opportunity to watch curling games they
otherwise wouldn't have been able ...
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CALGARY (CP) _ A large hike in competition fees for major curling events like
the Scotties Tournament of Hearts and the Tim Hortons Brier has raised the ire
of some provincial associations.
As of next season, a curler will now have to pay $25 for each event entered,
well up from the existing flat fee of $15 which covers all major tournaments.
What's more, the Canadian Curling Association's decision to ...
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World men's curling champions and medal standings since the inception of the tournament in 1959, with year, country and skip in parentheses:
Champions (country, skip)
2006 _ Scotland (Murdoch)
2005 _ Canada (Ferbey)
2004 _ Sweden (Lindholm)
2003 _ Canada (Ferbey)
2002 _ Canada (Ferbey)
2001 _ ...
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