Brad Gushue News

While Manitoba's Jeff Stoughton and Jason Gunnlaugson have been chasing their Olympic dreams, a young curler who has had links to both has quietly gone about his business closer to home.

A dispute over who should pay for maintenance costs is erupting between the cities of St.

If the organizers of the 'Roar of he Rings' could have offered two exemptions for the Edmonton event, they'd have given them to Brad Gushue and Cathy King.

Calgary skip Crystal Webster shouts to her front end during her 8-7 victory over kelowna's Kelly Scott in the A division of the woman's final.

The title of Olympic champion may be one of the toughest to defend. Not only do you see the rise of other athletes during the four years in between the international events, but you have to maintain the same amount of dedication and effort that resulted in a gold-medal finish in the first place.

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. a ' For the second time this week, Wayne Middaugh found himself on the losing end of a rock-and-roll battle with Pat Simmons from Saskatchewan.

Brad Gushue of St.John's N.L. shouts to his front end during the men's C quarter finals.

Pat Simmons almost completed a sweep of the top three seeds at the Olympic curling pre-trail men's event.

AT least Jeff Stoughton has earned his ticket back to the scene of the crime. Well, sort of.

Brad Gushue is also down to his last life in his attempt to defend the Olympic men's curling gold medal he won in Torino in 2006.

Quebec's Michel Menard used the hammer effectively early in Friday's match against Newfoundland and Labrador skip Brad Gushue, shown here at the Briar earlier this year.

As teams battle it out this weekend in Prince George, B.C., for spots in the Olympics Trials, Russ Howard can sit back and relax.

The Number 1 ranked teams at the Olympic curling pre-trials in Prince George will play for the first Olympic trials berths for men and women granted at the Road to the Roar.

Hurry hard! TSN launches its 2009-10 curling broadcast schedule with live coverage of the ROAD TO THE ROAR from Prince George, BC, beginning Thursday, Nov.

Winnipeg skip Jeff Stoughton,looks to his front end during thier afternoon draw against Mike McEwen.

Ottawa skip Rachel Homan,shouts to her front end during her opening round match against Eve Belisle of Montreal.

Four years ago, Brad Gushue was just part of the pack, a lightly regarded entrant in that year's Canadian Olympic Curling Trials whom rival skip Jeff Stoughton described as having "no chance" at the event.

Newfoundland skip Brad Gushue celebrates his win over Kevin Martin of Alberta in the Tim Horton's Brier in March 2007.

There's more than one way to get into the Olympic Trials. Even though the Canadian Teams Ranking System was designed to identify the teams most worthy of representing Canada at the Vancouver Olympics, there were other ways for the best teams to avoid this week's pre-Trials event at Prince George.

Ever since curling started its road back into the Olympics as a demonstration sport at the 1988 event in Calgary, the question of how to determine Canada's representatives continued to been a burning issue.