{"id":481613,"date":"2026-02-17T22:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481613\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:24:13","slug":"canadas-homan-beats-swedens-hasselborg-at-games-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481613\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Homan beats Sweden\u2019s Hasselborg at Games – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

CORTINA D\u2019AMPEZZO \u2013 Sweden\u2019s Anna Hasselborg qualified for the playoffs at the Winter Olympics on Tuesday despite falling to Canada.<\/p>\n

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Rachel Homan took a big step toward joining her with an 8-6 victory at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium.<\/p>\n

Homan made an end-changing triple-takeout in the eighth and took advantage of a Sweden miss in the ninth to improve to 4-3. Canada iced it with a deuce in the 10th end to hand Sweden (6-1) its first defeat of the competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never know what game is going to matter in the round robin,\u201d said Canada coach Heather Nedohin. \u201cSo yeah, they\u2019re all must-wins.\u201d<\/p>\n

A loss to Sweden would have been a major hit for Canada\u2019s playoff hopes. Instead, Homan\u2019s Ottawa-based rink is tied for fourth place with two games to play.<\/p>\n

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Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes have reeled off three straight wins after a 1-3 start and a weekend loaded with distractions. The top four teams in the 10-field cut will advance to the semifinals on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel like we\u2019re battling and we\u2019re resilient,\u201d Miskew said. \u201cWe are trying to make sure that we continue to put as much pressure on as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Homan was scheduled to play Stefania Constantini of host Italy on Wednesday ahead of her round-robin finale against South Korea\u2019s Eunji Gim on Thursday. The latter matchup could determine the final playoff entry.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEvery game here is huge for us,\u201d Homan said. \u201cWe have to keep playing our game and keep staying within ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Switzerland\u2019s Silvana Tirinzoni beat South Korea 7-5 on Tuesday and American Tabitha Peterson dumped Denmark\u2019s Madeleine Dupont 10-3. That left the U.S. and Switzerland tied in second place behind Sweden at 5-2.<\/p>\n

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The Canada-Sweden game came after a tense matchup between the countries in the men\u2019s draw on Friday night. Vice-skips Marc Kennedy and Oskar Eriksson had a profanity-laced exchange about \u2018double-touching\u2019 stones that went viral.<\/p>\n

Homan got involved Saturday after World Curling assigned umpires to monitor the hog line area where stones are released. An umpire pulled Homan\u2019s first stone in a loss to Switzerland that night due to double-touching.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s illegal to touch the granite portion of the rock after the handle is released. Homan denied there was contact and called the decision to remove the stone \u201cabsurd.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Great Britain\u2019s Bobby Lammie had a stone pulled Sunday for double-touching and World Curling reversed course for the next session, reverting back to its original umpire setup.<\/p>\n

Temperatures were much lower for the Canada-Sweden matchup between veteran women\u2019s teams that know each other well.<\/p>\n

Sweden took its first lead in the fifth end after Homan missed a double-takeout and knocked her own stone out of the house. Hasselborg made a hit to score three points for a 4-3 advantage.<\/p>\n

After exchanging singles, Homan seemed uncertain about trying a triple-takeout in the eighth end. Miskew talked her into it and the skip delivered with a powerful hit that cleared all three Swedish stones and left Canada sitting two.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHaving that high-weight ability to make rocks \u2013 many rocks \u2013 move is exceptional,\u201d Nedohin said.<\/p>\n

Canada shot 83 per cent overall while Sweden was at 73 per cent.<\/p>\n

Hasselborg had a chance for a deuce in the ninth end but settled for a single when her rock rolled out. That gave Canada hammer coming home in a tie game and Homan made a nose hit for the deuce.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just try to take advantage whenever we can of getting any sort of break,\u201d Miskew said.<\/p>\n

Canada hasn\u2019t won Olympic women\u2019s team gold since Jennifer Jones was victorious at the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 17, 2026.<\/p>\n

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