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Canada’s Homan Improves Playoff Chances with Victory over Italy at the Olympics
Rachel Homan's team improved to 5-3 with a fourth consecutive win, moving closer to a top-four finish needed for Olympic curling semifinals.
- On Wednesday, Rachel Homan posted an 8-7 extra-end victory over Italy's Stefania Constantini at Cortina, improving to 5-3 with one game remaining, with her teammates contributing key steals.
- With the top four advancing on Friday, Italy's loss dropped the team to 4-4, pushing Homan's chances of a playoff spot higher with one game left.
- Italy rallied with a three-point 10th to tie, but a decisive extra-end draw by Homan to the four-foot clinched the win after steals in the sixth and ninth.
- Homan's streak now at four games, Canada will play South Korea's Eunji Gim on Thursday as its final round-robin tune-up before Friday's semifinals and weekend medal games.
- As medal games loom on the weekend, Sweden's Anna Hasselborg and Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni have secured playoff berths, with Yannick Schwaller remaining unbeaten.
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Canada's Brad Jacobs tuned up for the men's curling playoffs Wednesday with an 8-3 victory over Joel Retornaz of host Italy at the Winter Olympics. On the women's side, Rachel Homan improved her playoff chances at the Winter Olympics with an 8-7 extra-end victory over Italy's Stefania Constantini.
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