There was something familiar — almost comforting — about the sound of brooms and stones echoing through the Wolfville Curling Centre last weekend. Even though the Olympic Curling Pre-Trials were held on Nova Scotia soil, it often felt like a Manitoba bonspiel.

Our province’s curlers were everywhere, with plenty of local players chasing a dream that lives in nearly every Manitoba rink: a spot at the Olympic Trials.

In the end, it was Manitoba’s own Jordon McDonald who rose above the rest, defeating fellow Manitoban Braden Calvert in an all-Manitoba men’s final to punch his ticket to next month’s Trials in Halifax. It was a three-game battle that captured everything great about Manitoba curling — talent meeting tenacity, youth meeting experience, and friends turned rivals for the biggest o

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