CALGARY - It's all about Olympic trials for the Canada's top curling teams now.
November's trials in Halifax will determine which men's and women's teams representing Canada at the 2026 Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina, Italy.
Canada's last Olympic gold medals in team curling were won in 2014, when teams skipped by Jennifer Jones and Brad Jacobs prevailed in Sochi, Russia.
Seven of the eight men's teams and seven of the eight women's teams bound for the Halifax trials are competing this week in the PointsBet Invitational that's been altered to mimic the trials environment.
It's not the quirky, single knockout event it was its first three years when there was the odd monster upset and a few favourites went home early.
Each team gets four round-robin games in Calgary. The finals are S