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The curling world has caught up to Canada, thanks to Canadian coaches

Our curling exports have helping most of the top women's teams in Pyeongchang.

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PYEONGCHANG, SOUTH KOREA—In making sense of the seismic national sporting catastrophe that was Rachel Homan’s historic early exit from the women’s Olympic curling tournament, you could have come up with any number of culprits.

Why, exactly, will Homan go down as the first Canadian skip to leave the Games without a medal since the sport became an Olympic staple 20 years ago? Maybe the pressure inside the Olympic bubble was too much for Homan and teammates Emma Miskew, Joanne Courtney and Lisa Weagle.

Dave Feschuk

Dave Feschuk is a Toronto-based sports columnist for the Star. Follow him on Twitter: @dfeschuk

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