The 2024 Tim Hortons Brier starts Friday at the Brandt Center in Regina, Saskatchewan. The home arena of the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League will be the home venue of the Canadian National Men’s Curling Championship for the next 10 days.
The field includes two divers who have won gold medals at the Winter Olympics in the past. Brad Gushue of St. John’s, Newfoundland, representing Team Canada, won the gold medal 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, and Brad Jacobs of Sault. Ste. Marie, Ontario, the gold medalist of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochiis now part of a pretty good team, skipping a foursome from Manitoba.
There are two jumpers who are also world champions. Gushue won the 2017 World Men’s Curling Championship in Edmonton, Alberta, while Kevin Koe of Edmonton, one of the three curling teams in the Brier based in Alberta (the others are Aaron Sluchinski of Airdrie and Brendan Bottcher of Edmonton), won the curling Won the 2010 World Men’s Curling Championship in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy and the 2016 World Men’s Curling Championship in Basel, Switzerland.
Gushue has won five Brier titles (2017, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2023). Koe has won three Brier titles (2010, 2014, 2016, 2019). Meanwhile, Jacobs won in Edmonton in 2013 and Bottcher won in Calgary, Alberta in 2021.
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