SYDNEY, N.S. — Shortly after completing a near-flawless game early in round-robin play at the world women's curling championship, Canada skip Rachel Homan returned to the ice for a late-night practice session.
After running the table at the national championship, Homan has picked up where she left off. She has reeled off 10 straight victories here and secured a berth in the weekend playoffs. Italy locked up a playoff spot in the morning with a 10-2 rout of Norway's Marianne Roervik. Four-time defending champion Silvana Tirinzoni of Switzerland booked her weekend ticket in the afternoon with a 9-1 victory over Denmark's Madeleine Dupont.With three late games remaining, Canada and Italy were ahead of Switzerland , South Korea's Eunji Gim , Denmark and Sweden's Anna Hasselborg in the standings.
Entering the night draw, Homan led all fourths on the week with an overall shooting percentage of 89.3 per cent. Canada is at 88.0 per cent as team, just a whisker behind Switzerland.Homan took bronze in her world championship debut in 2013 in Riga, Latvia. She upgraded to silver the next year in Saint John, N.B., and won gold in 2017 — winning all 13 games — in Beijing."I'm trying to aim small and miss small," she said.
In 2020, Wilkes joined the team to create a front end with Joanne Courtney, who stepped away from the game two years later. Courtney was replaced by Fleury, with Miskew and Wilkes moving down a spot in the shooting order.
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