‘This sport has given me more than I could have ever imagined,’ says the Sault’s three-time Brier champion, who plans on finishing out this season<\/p>\n
While the decision wasn\u2019t easy, he\u2019s at peace with it.<\/p>\n
Local curler E.J. Harnden announced via social media today that\u2019s he\u2019s planning on this being his last full season of competitive curling.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis sport has given me more than I could have ever imagined,\u201d Harnden said in the post. \u201cFrom the first stone I threw to competing at the highest level, curling has shaped who I am. Every time I stepped onto the ice, I gave everything I had \u2014 for my team, for the moment, and for the love of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harnden thanked his family \u201cfor the unwavering support, sacrifices, and belief as I pursued a sport I truly loved.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harnden\u2019s career has seen him win an Olympic gold medal in 2014 with Team Jacobs while also competing in the men\u2019s World Curling Championship on four occasions (2013 with Team Jacobs, 2022 as an alternate with Team Gushue, and the 2023 and 2024 tournaments as a member of the Gushue rink).<\/p>\n
The veteran curler also made 16 appearances in the Brier, which crowns the Canadian men\u2019s curling champions each year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Harnden is currently a member of Matt Dunstone\u2019s Manitoba-based rink, a team he joined in December 2024<\/a>. In joining the Dunstone rink, Harnden was once again teaming up with his brother Ryan after the two were longtime teammates with Brad Jacobs prior to the Jacobs rink breaking up in the spring of 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n Prior to joining Team Dunstone, Harnden was a member of Brad Gushue\u2019s team<\/a>, a team he joined after Jacobs stepped away from curling full time. Harnden and the Gushue rink parted ways in October 2024<\/a>, just prior to E.J. joining the Dunstone rink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘This sport has given me more than I could have ever imagined,’ says the Sault’s three-time Brier champion,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,139708,82],"class_list":["post-374187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ej-harnden","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}