Wheelchair
Curling Championship to receive enhanced online coverage
THUNDER
BAY, ON – The event organizing committee in partnership with Wheelchair Curling
Blog 2 today announced enhanced online coverage plans for the 2012 Canadian Wheelchair
Curling Championship.
Selected
draws of the Championship, scheduled for Mar. 18-25 at the Fort William Curling
Club in Thunder Bay, Ont., will be shown live via webstream at curling.ca, the
website of the Canadian Curling Association (CCA). In addition to live scoring,
statistics and editorial coverage, a live blog will also provide in-game
commentary, which will be mirrored at wheelchaircurler.blogspot.com.
Ten
teams from across Canada will compete for the Canadian title with representatives
from eight of 10 provinces and two from Northern Ontario. The round-robin
competition will precede the Page Playoff system in the CCA-sanctioned
championship.
“We
are delighted to announce new and enhanced coverage efforts for Canada’s top
wheelchair curling champions,” said Dave Kawahara, Chair – Host Committee “Thunder
Bay is a dynamic curling market, and the accomplishments of these curlers in
that environment will be available for more Canadian curling fans to watch,
follow and cheer.”
This
is ninth edition of the Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship. The inaugural
event was held in Toronto in 2004, while Edmonton staged the 2011 edition. The
2013 championship will be hosted in Ottawa.
Wheelchair
curling is played on the same ice with the same rocks and under the
same rules as regular curling, although without sweeping. In addition, the
stones are delivered from a stationary wheelchair.
Canada
has won wheelchair curling gold at the last two Paralympic Winter Games, at
Torino 2006 (Daw) and Vancouver 2010 (Armstrong).
Admission
to the championship is free. The Opening Ceremonies take
place
at 2:00 p.m. local time on Monday, March 19, 2012 with the Championship Final
scheduled for Sunday, March 25 2012.
Fans
can follow the action online at: curling.ca/championships/wheelchair
For
more information contact:
Dave
Kawahara, Chair – Host Committee at 807-628-3958
5 comments:
good plug all week on TSN Brier coverage of "the brain" Sonya Gaudet wheel chair curling....
How come Sonya isn't playing on team BC at Nationals now?
HOW DO YOU KNOW SONJA IS OUT?
Chris;
Are you going to the Nationals?
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