By Mario Annicchiarico, Canwest News Service April 19, 2009
I watched Jennifer Jones and her team defeat Kleibrink yesterday. They did not look very good doing it. And after watching the ladies and Martin's mens team perform at the recent world championships Canada will be very lucky to gold medal at the Vancouver winter Olympics. The women might not even medal.
There is time to rectify this. Appoint the teams now. Pay them to work full time at curling like the Chinese men and women and the Scottish men do now.
Plan a challenging schedule of games against Canada's very best teams and practise practise practise from now until the Olympics. Else Canadians will be very disappointed...
Oh, and don't allow other national teams to practise and play in Canada either.
Yeah. That's the ticket.
GRANDE PRAIRIE,Alta. - Three of the four women's curling teams to claim direct berths to the 2009 Canadian Olympic Trials in Edmonton are established.
Joining the two initial qualifiers - Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg and Shannon Kleibrink of Calgary - is Cheryl Bernard of Calgary. That trio will be joined by either Stefanie Lawton of Saskatoon or Kelly Scott of Kelowna, B.C.
I watched Jennifer Jones and her team defeat Kleibrink yesterday. They did not look very good doing it. And after watching the ladies and Martin's mens team perform at the recent world championships Canada will be very lucky to gold medal at the Vancouver winter Olympics. The women might not even medal.
There is time to rectify this. Appoint the teams now. Pay them to work full time at curling like the Chinese men and women and the Scottish men do now.
Plan a challenging schedule of games against Canada's very best teams and practise practise practise from now until the Olympics. Else Canadians will be very disappointed...
Oh, and don't allow other national teams to practise and play in Canada either.
Yeah. That's the ticket.
