Curling Canada is hoping an ongoing high-performance evaluate will assist put the federation on observe for achievement after a disappointing displaying on the worldwide stage final season.
Canada’s lone curling medal on the Beijing Olympics was a males’s bronze and the gold medal continued on the world championships.
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One of many high priorities on the group’s to-do listing for the brand new quadrennial is the appointment of a high-performance director to succeed Gerry Peckham, who’s serving as a guide earlier than retirement.
Chief Government Officer Kathy Henderson stated Curling Canada obtained an “enthusiastic and extremely certified response” from the curling market and excessive efficiency neighborhood for the place.
“Now we have a panel of inner consultants and somebody from Personal the Podium is working with us and we hope to have somebody introduced hopefully in January,” Henderson stated.
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Peckham, who spent greater than three a long time with the group, led a program that excelled on the worldwide stage for a few years however typically underperformed at main occasions during the last two quads.
“We would like the identical excellence and we would like the identical medals,” Henderson stated. “However we now have to work tougher for them and it should be incremental.”
Preliminary findings from the high-performance evaluate did yield one notable early-season announcement. The 18-team, two-pool format will grow to be everlasting on the Tim Hortons Brier and Scotties Event of Hearts.
Extra bulletins are anticipated as soon as the evaluate is full.
“It is a humorous 12 months as a result of there’s plenty of restoration concerned and there is plenty of reflection,” Henderson advised The Canadian Press from Toronto. “So we’re recovering and we’re reflecting now.
“However I might say, beginning in April, you may most likely see some shifts and a few modifications that we’ll keep on with for the sq..”
Qualification particulars and dates for the Olympic Trials and Blended Doubles Trials are but to be introduced. The timing of that playoff is the topic of a lot debate.
The group trials are historically held about two months from the beginning of the Video games. The blended doubles trials shut a few month earlier than the opening ceremony.
Critics consider the preparation interval is just too brief beneath the present setup. Proponents argue the schedule permits for illustration of curlers peaking on the proper time.
Canada didn’t make the group podium on the 2018 Pyeongchang Video games, though John Morris and Kaitlyn Lawes received gold within the Olympic debut of blended doubles.
4 years later in Beijing, the Canadian ladies’s and blended doubles groups missed the playoffs. Brad Gushue’s males’s group salvaged a 3rd place end.
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World Championship outcomes have additionally dropped in latest seasons.
Canada’s final ladies’s world title got here in 2018 when Jennifer Jones received gold in North Bay, Ont. Canada’s final males’s world title got here in 2017 when Gushue prevailed in Edmonton.
Canada’s finest outcome on the World Blended Doubles Championship was silver (in 2017 and ’19).
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The six-event Grand Slam of Curling circuit has resumed for 2022-23, however the first Season of Champions calendar of the four-year cycle has a brand new look.
The inaugural PointsBet Invitational kicked issues off in September on a schedule highlighted by the nationwide championships, however one which not consists of the Canada Cup or Continental Cup.
“I feel subsequent 12 months you may most likely see some modifications within the lineup,” Henderson stated. “We are able to add one other alternative.”
This would be the final season with Tim Hortons because the title sponsor of the Brier and the Canadian Curling Trials.
The restaurant chain first sponsored the Brier in 2005 and has been a associate with Curling Canada since 1996.
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