World championship and Olympic curling, and by extension Canada’s national championships, remain 10-end games two decades later. Chelsea Carey’s Calgary foursome is playing 10-enders at the women’s world championship in Denmark this week. “It is a matter the World Curling Federation is deliberating, including with athletes, broadcasters and other stakeholders,” the WCF said in a statement to The Canadian Press. “Now that we have the Curling World Cup series, which features eight ends, the World Curling Federation has a platform to gauge the benefits of eight end games. ——–The field for the national senior curling championship opening Friday in Chilliwack, B.C., reads like a Who’s Who of Canadian curling.

Source: National Post March 19, 2019 21:11 UTC