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Date sent: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:37:58 -0500
From: Jeff Timson
Subject: 2001 Canadian Curling Trials
2001 CANADIAN CURLING TRIALS
October 18, 2001...The Canadian Curling Trials will be held December 1-9
at the Agridome in Regina, Saskatchewan, as 10 men's and 10 women's
teams will battle to earn the right to represent Canada at the 2002
Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The ten men's teams are skipped by Bert Gretzinger and Greg McAulay
(BC), Randy Ferbey, Kevin Martin and Kevin Park (AB), Kerry Burtnyk
and Jeff Stoughton (MB), Wayne Middaugh and John Morris (ON) and Russ
Howard (NB).
The 10 women's teams are skipped by Sherry Fraser and Kelley Law (BC),
Heather Fowlie and Cathy King (AB), Sherry Anderson, Amber Holland and
Michelle Ridgway (SK), Sherry Middaugh (ON), Marie-France Larouche
(PQ) and Colleen Jones (NS).
The teams play a round robin, followed by a playoff involving the top
three finishers only, whereby the first place teams advance directly
to their respective finals, while the second and third place teams
meet in semi-finals. The women's final is scheduled for Saturday,
December 8 while the men's final is Sunday, December 9. Both games
will be played at 12:00 CT (1:00 pm ET) and be televised live on
CBC-TV. TSN/RDS will carry the complete round robin (three draws
daily) plus the semi-finals on Friday, December 7.
The last Canadian Curling Trials took place at the Keystone Centre in
Brandon, Manitoba in 1997. There, Sandra Schmirler of Regina and Mike
Harris of Toronto won to qualify for the 1998 Winter Olympics in
Nagano, Japan. The curling competition was conducted in Karuizawa,
where Schmirler won the gold medal, Harris a silver medal, as curling
became an official Olympic sport.
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Jeff Timson
Media Director, St. Clair Group
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