Women’s Curling: Team Canada out of the medals at the Olympics

For the first time at the Winter Olympics, Team Canada will not be in the medal round of the women’s curling tournament as Rachel Homan’s rink falls to Great Britain, 6-5.

When it comes to women’s curling at the Olympics, there has been one constant since it become a medal sport in 1998: Canada has always made it to the medal round. In fact, the Canadians have left with a medal from every Olympics.

However, that will not be the case in 2018, as Canada, led by Rachel Homan, has been knocked out of medal contention with a 6-5 loss to Great Britain on Tuesday night.

It was looking good for Canada heading into the 10th and final end as they were up by one, but Great Britain had the hammer. Then, everything went wrong for Homan as Great Britain ended up lying four with only a couple rocks left to throw. And that was too much for the Canadians to overcome.

With the loss, Canada dropped to 3-5 in the tournament, leaving them on the outside looking in at the medal round.

Entering the Olympics, Team Homan were the overwhelming favorites. Not only are they the reigning world champions, having gone undefeated to win that title, but they also had to make their way through a deep Canadian field just to even make it to these games.

But the team got off the a very rocky star,t dropping their first three games and putting them in a big hole right out of the gate. Things looked to be turning around for the Canadians after a big 11-3 win over the United States. But a loss to China on Tuesday morning made made this night game against Great Britain a must win.

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As for Team Great Britain, led by Eve Muirhead, they improve to 6-3 and are sitting in third at the end of their preliminary round. The U.S. is currently sitting fifth in the standings at 4-4. Only the top four teams advance to the playoffs and a chance at the medals.