{"id":13623,"date":"2025-11-30T01:21:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/30\/teams-jacobs-homan-headed-to-olympics-after-winning-canadian-curling-trials\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T01:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:21:04","slug":"teams-jacobs-homan-headed-to-olympics-after-winning-canadian-curling-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/30\/teams-jacobs-homan-headed-to-olympics-after-winning-canadian-curling-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams Jacobs, Homan headed to Olympics after winning Canadian curling trials"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jacobs and his Calgary-based team will represent Canada at the Milan Cortina Olympics in February. Earlier in the day at Scotiabank Centre, Ottawa\u2019s Rachel Homan defeated Christina Black of Halifax in the women\u2019s final.Brad Jacobs and Rachel Homan will represent Canada at the Milan Cortina OlympicsGregory Strong \u00b7 The Canadian Press \u00b7 Posted: Nov 29, 2025 1:09 PM EST | Last Updated: 1 hour agoListen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Brad Jacobs throws a stone during Canadian Olympic curling trials finals in Halifax on Saturday. (Darren Calabrese\/The Canadian Press)Brad Jacobs defeated Matt Dunstone 6-5 to win a second straight game in the best-of-three men\u2019s final at the Montana\u2019s Canadian Curling Trials.Jacobs and his Calgary-based team will represent Canada at the Milan Cortina Olympics in February.Earlier in the day at Scotiabank Centre, Ottawa\u2019s Rachel Homan defeated Christina Black of Halifax in the women\u2019s final.WATCH | Team Homan secures 2026 Olympic ticket:Canada\u2019s Team Homan clinches 2026 Olympic spotOttawa\u2019s Rachel Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes sweep Team Christina Black in the final of the Canadian curling trials.With the game tied after nine ends, Jacobs had hammer and made a hit for a single to win it in the 10th.Jacobs and his team of vice Marc Kennedy, second Brett Gallant and lead Ben Hebert outscored Dunstone 9-8 in Game 1 on Friday night.Jacobs was forced to a single in the opening end of Game 2. Dunstone gave up a steal in the second when he was light on a draw but pulled even with a deuce in the third.Kennedy made a runback triple-takeout in the fourth end and his skip delivered another highlight shot with an angle-raise to salvage a single for a 3-2 lead.Dunstone picked a Jacobs rock off the button for a single in the sixth end. Jacobs made a double-takeout for a pair in the seventh and ticked off his own rock for a highlight double again in the eighth to force Dunstone to draw for one.Jacobs was content to give up a steal of one in the ninth to keep hammer for the final end.Jacobs won Olympic gold in 2014 at the Sochi Games with a team that included Dunstone\u2019s current front end of Ryan Harnden and E.J. Harnden. It was the first trials final for Dunstone and vice Colton Lott.Kennedy and lead Ben Hebert won Olympic gold in 2010 on a team skipped by Kevin Martin. Kennedy and Hebert returned to the Games in 2018 with skip Kevin Koe.Gallant, who earned Olympic bronze three years ago on a team skipped by Brad Gushue, has also qualified to play mixed doubles for Canada at the 2026 Games with Jocelyn Peterman. Homan\u2019s Olympic returnRachel Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes will represent Canada at the Milano-Cortina Olympics after sweeping Team Christina Black in the final of the Canadian curling trials.Team Homan beat Black 12-3 in Game 2 of the best-of-three Olympic curling trial final in Halifax on Saturday. It will be her third straight Olympic appearance.\u201dWe couldn\u2019t be happier,\u201d Homan said. \u201cThere aren\u2019t words to describe putting that Maple Leaf on your back at the Olympics.\u201d Homan played on a women\u2019s team with Miskew at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. She returned at the 2022 Beijing Games to play mixed doubles with John Morris. Homan missed the podium both times. After a tight 5-4 win over Black on Friday, Homan\u2019s team dominated Game 2 and were in full control after scoring four points in the third end at Scotiabank Centre. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teams Jacobs, Homan headed to Olympics after winning Canadian curling trials Jacobs and his Calgary-based team will represent Canada at the Milan Cortina Olympics in February. Earlier in the day at Scotiabank Centre, Ottawa\u2019s Rachel Homan defeated Christina Black of Halifax in the women\u2019s final.Brad Jacobs and Rachel Homan will represent Canada at the Milan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,129,1],"tags":[116,128],"class_list":["post-13623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indigenous","category-nova-scotia","category-uncategorized","tag-indigenous","tag-nova-scotia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}