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Top-Ranked Canada Beats US for Bronze Medal in Women’s Curling at the Olympics
Rachel Homan's rink secured Canada’s first women’s curling medal since 2014 with a 10-7 win over the U.S. to claim bronze at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
- On Saturday, Rachel Homan, skip of the Canadian women's rink, won Olympic bronze by defeating Tabitha Peterson, skip of the U.S. women's team, 10-7 at the Milano‑Cortina Winter Olympic Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
- Coming off earlier round-robin struggles, Team Homan reeled off five wins before regrouping after a crushing semi-final loss to Sweden's Anna Hasselborg on Friday.
- The teams exchanged singles through the first five ends, then Homan's Ottawa-based rink scored three in both the sixth and eighth to take an 8-5 lead, but Peterson wrecked her last shot in the 10th end.
- On Saturday, Homan's rink won Canada's first women's Olympic curling medal since Jennifer Jones' 2014 gold, marking her first Olympic podium in her third Games.
- Meanwhile, Homan — long considered the world's best female curler — led the four Canadian women, back-to-back world champions, as Sweden's Hasselborg faces Tirinzoni for gold on Sunday.
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Canada beat USA to take bronze in Olympic women’s curling
Canada beat the United States 10-7 to take the bronze medal in the Olympic women's curling competition on Saturday. The Canadian women returned to the Olympic podium having missed out at the past two Winter Games. It was their sixth medal -- two gold, one silver and three bronze -- since the women's event was
Women’s curling: U.S. quest for first Olympic medal finishes just short
Team Peterson’s quest for the first U.S. women’s curling medal ended just short on Saturday as the Americans dropped the Olympic bronze medal game to Canada, 10-7, in Cortina D’Ampezza Italy. A two-point hammer throw in the ninth by skip Tabitha Peterson kept U.S. hopes alive, but Canada put immediate pressure on the Americans in the 10th, curling through and around U.S. guards to put as many as five stones in the house. Needing a perfect throw …
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