When Team New Zealand tosses its first rock at the men’s world curling championship in Schaffhausen, Switzerland in March, their former housemates in Calgary – a group of more than a dozen senior citizens at the Chartwell Colonel Belcher Retirement Residence – will be raucously cheering them on.
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New Zealand's men’s national curling team has been training at the Calgary Curling Club and staying in apartment units at a seniors' retirement home in the city's northwest.
Group of four men in their 20s and 30s struggled to find accommodation in Calgary while training for the 2026 Winter Olympics until an unlikely solution was offered
New Zealand’s curling team wanted to train with the “big boys” in Canada, and a group of enthusiastic seniors has provided housing, a cheering section and lots of advice.