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Canada avoided both a third straight loss and putting its playoff hopes in the hands of other teams with the win over the Norwegians. "Over a 13-game round robin, you're going to have peaks and valleys and it's just how you weather the storm that I think really differentiates the top teams," Bottcher said. The top six teams in the conclusion of the preliminary round Friday afternoon both remain in contention for a world title, and qualify their countries in men's curling for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The rest of the Olympic field will be determined in a December qualifying tourname...

Canada clinches spot in men's curling competition at 2022 Olympics Team Canada skip Brendan Bottcher, right, makes a shot as second Brad Thiessen sweeps against Norway at the Men's World Curling Championships in Calgary, Alta., Thursday, April 8, 2021. (Jeff McIntosh/CP) | April 9, 2021, 12:53 AM April 9, 2021, 12:53 AM CALGARY -- Brendan Bottcher ensured Canada will compete in men's curling at the next Winter Olympics and also clinched a playoff berth at the world curling championship Thursday. Bottcher downed Norway's Steffen Walstad 6-4 in a pivotal game for the host country in Calgary. C...

The World Curling Federation's stones employed at WinSport's Markin MacPhail Centre were last tossed at the 2019 men's world championship in Lethbridge, Alta., where Kevin Koe represented Canada. Colton Flasch, Koe's second that year, has supplied Bottcher's foursome with a "rock book" that is a scouting report on each stone's movement. "He gave us his book from the '19 worlds," Bottcher third Darren Moulding said. "That just shows us Canadian curlers, we've got each other's backs." Bottcher, Moulding and front end Brad Thiessen and Karrick Martin from Edmonton came from behind to beat Scotla...