Curling Canada expands Olympic pre-trials field to 28 to avoid tiebreaker option
ORLEANS, Ont. — Curling Canada has expanded the field of a pre-trials qualifying event for the Olympic Games.
The addition of rinks skipped by Mark Bice of Sarnia, Ont., Jamie Murphy of Halifax, Karla Thompson of Kamloops, B.C., and Winnipeg’s Briane Meilleur and Shannon Birchard brings the number of teams invited to the Road to the Roar Pre-Trials to 28.
The top two men’s and women’s teams in the Nov. 6-12 competition in Summerside, P.E.I., gain berths into the Olympic Trials Dec. 2-10 in Ottawa.
The victors in Ottawa will wear the Maple Leaf in men’s and women’s curling next year in Pyeongchang, South Korea.