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The 2025 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Olympic Trials, is scheduled to be held from December 30, 2024, to January 4, 2025, at Queens Place Emera Centre in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. [1] The winners of this event will represent Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics, should Canada qualify.
If a player's teammate qualified for the Olympics as part of a four-player team, the player had to name a replacement to compete alongside them in the Trials. This however changed in 2025, where winners of the Mixed Doubles Trials will have the option of also competing for their four-player teams at the Olympics, should they qualify in both events.
The Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, marketed from 2009 through 2017 as the Roar of the Rings, are a quadrennial tournament held by Curling Canada that determines the Canadian men's and women's representatives for curling at the Winter Olympics. The system of qualification for the Curling Trials varies for each event, and can be quite complicated.
Cross Canada Curling was a series presented on CBC's World of Sport from 1961-1965. Cross Canada Curling featured teams from each of the eleven provincial and territorial curling rinks. The four western rinks played off in Winnipeg and the seven eastern rinks played off in Toronto and Halifax. The eastern and western champions would play each ...
The first telecast of the Olympics on Canadian television was the CBC's broadcast of the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.The CBC aired black-and-white highlights of the previous day's events and aired the Canada vs. Soviet Union hockey game live by leasing a standby circuit from CBS and making the CBC's 1st winter Olympics in the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, USA.
Curling becomes a popular sport every time the Winter Olympics come around, but the sport is more complicated to play than viewers might think. Beneath its placid façade, curling is a sport about ...
Curling was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Games, and then again after a lengthy absence in 1988 and 1992. The sport was finally added to the official program for the 1998 Games in Nagano . Until 2018, only men's and women's events were contested.
The CBC was criticized by the CCA, curling fans, and sponsors after the network moved some of its coverage to the digital cable channel CBC Country Canada. [1] In 2006, the CCA and TSN signed an exclusive six-year contract which would take effect in 2008, ending CBC's 42-year relationship with the CCA.