The 2024 LGT World Men’s Curling Championship is set to get underway in Switzerland and for Team Gushue, who is representing Canada, it will mean another attempt at winning gold after recent shortcomings.
Since winning gold in 2017, Team Gushue has won three silver medals at the event, including two consecutive second-place finishes.
Team Canada consists of skip Brad Gushue, vice-skip Mark Nichols, second EJ Harnden, lead Geoff Walker, coach Caleb Flaxey, national coach Jeff Stoughton and alternate Kyle Doering.
The rink is coming off a strong performance at the Montana’s Brier, where they became the second squad in Canadian history to win three consecutive Brier titles.
The Canadians will have to play to the best of their ability, as this year’s event is loaded with talent.
Taking the ice is the world's number one ranked Team Italy, defending champions Team Scotland, six-time world champion Niklas Edin of Sweden and Olympic gold medallist Team USA.
The world curling championship marks the first event where countries can earn qualification points for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Italy.
The round-robin stage of the event will be underway through next Friday, with the qualification and semifinals on Saturday and the medal games on Sunday.
Canada’s first game is at 9 am on Saturday against Team Lukas Klima of Czechia and will be broadcast on TSN.
