Twenty-eight teams will open play today at the 2021 Home Hardware Canadian Curling Pre-Trials at Queens Place Emera Centre in Liverpool.
Only four of those teams will keep their dreams of representing Canada at the Olympic Winter Games alive by this Sunday.
Fourteen men’s and fourteen women’s teams will chase the final two spots available for each gender into the 2021 Tim Hortons Canadian Curling Trials in Saskatoon next month.
It will be there where Canada’s four-player men’s and women’s teams for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing will be determined.
Nova Scotians will be cheering for Liverpool native Jill Brothers along with Paul Flemming of Halifax.
The Home Hardware Curling Pre-Trials begin today with draws at 5p.m. and 9 p.m.
