From the Hack

Today's World Curing Report takes us to the British Isles and the Southern Hemisphere where mixed doubles teams from Canada, the U.S. and 7 other countries are competing in New Zealand.

On today's World Curling Report we touch on key announcements by two of the world's major national curling federations.

Welcome to the World Curling Report, your daily two-minute recap of news and notes from the world of curling.

This week we are joined by the winning skips from the 2019 Players Championship, Kerri Einarson (03:12) and Brendan Bottcher (08:24). We are joined by World Champion skip Niklas Edin (15:31) and BJ Neufeld of Team Koe who reached the final at the World Championship in Lethbridge (21:39). Our final guest this week is Olympic gold medalist Sara McManus of Team Hasselborg (30:15).

On this week's episode - 2019 World Women's champ, Alina Paetz (03:56), Price Atkinson of the Extra Extra End Podcast discusses the incident where Jamie Sinclair injured herself at the Women's Worlds (11:15), 2019 Canadian Mixed Doubles champs, Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant (17:03), Marc Kennedy discusses his decision to join Team Jacobs (27:48) and Peter de Cruz discusses his team's season and look ahead to the Men's Worlds (40:06).

On this week's podcast our guests are 2019 Tim Hortons Brier champions BJ Neufeld of Team Koe (4:45) and TSN curling analyst and two-time Brier champion, Russ Howard (20:24)

In Part 2 of our 2019 Tim Hortons Brier preview we focus on Pool A. Our guests include - Brett Gallant - CA (2:33), Kevin Koe - AB (13:53), Scott McDonald - ON (22:36), Stu Thompson - NS (29:27), Jim Cotter - BC (35:42) and Jamie Koe - NWT (43:08).