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USA Curling Qualifies For World Championship Playoffs
BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men’s Curling Championship 2021.
John Shuster told World Curling, “Obviously for us, we’re here trying to win a world championship. Making the playoffs and putting ourselves in a position to do that also doubled as qualifying our country in the Olympics. Obviously, we carry that flag with pride and we’re happy to be moving on to the playoffs,”
The team consisting of Skip: John Shuster Third: Chris Plys Second: Matt Hamilton Lead: John Landsteiner Alternate: Colin Hufman. So far in the tournament, the team is 9-3 and has qualified to move on to the playoffs for the Men s Curling Championships. Today they play Korea and are favored.
Quebec-Flavored Curling Passion
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Fellow journeymen, you should be cheering.
The Curling News desk can’t help but pay particular attention to the Brier results for Team Quebec.
Skip Mike Fournier, you see, is a longtime contributor. He made the jump to this SI platform with us back in November, and you can catch up on his most recent posts.
Curling fans watched Quebec’s 2021 women’s team, skipped by Laurie St-Georges, exude fun at last week’s Scotties bubble. Winning certainly helped it always does and St-Georges made it to the championship round before bowing out.
Well, Team Fournier has released a video showcasing their pre-Brier training regimens, and it’s hilarious. We are particularly impressed with third Felix Asselin’s impressions of Team Gushue. Here it is for your viewing pleasure:
CSI: 2016 Brier Final U1E7
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Alberta’s Kevin Koe has hammer and is ahead by one over Newfoundland and Labrador’s Brad Gushue in the seventh end of the 2016 Brier final. Alberta third Marc Kennedy is about to throw his first stone and thus far every rock is still in play . what the Scots might call a “guddle.“
U1E7 stands for Up One, End Seven.
Watch via The Curling News player to follow along with video and graphics, and watch the entire game on the Curling Canada YouTube page.
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