The volunteer recruitment drive for an Olympic curling trial event in Liverpool kicked off on a sunny Monday at the Liverpool Curling Club.
Sixteen mixed doubles curling teams will compete Dec. 30 to Jan. 4 at Queens Place Emera Centre in Liverpool for the chance to represent Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.
It’s a relatively new sport, with only two players on each team instead of four. It’s not uncommon to see the same person who threw the rock also sweep it down the ice. Canada won gold in the sport’s Olympic debut in 2018.
Greg Thorbourne, chairman of the Liverpool Championship Host Society, is a longtime booster and organizer of curling events in Liverpool.
“I used to hate mixed doubles. … (But) watching the calibre of curling, the shots made, the number of rocks in play, I don’t think there’s a better game in this world than mixed doubles.”
