Olympic bronze medallist Gushue back representing Canada at curling worlds

Brad Gushue's team has unfinished business in Sin City. They'll try to keep the distractions to a minimum - including the end-of-season departure of Brett Gallant - as they try to win a world men's curling championship.

Less than two months after winning Olympic bronze, the St. John's-based team will represent Canada once again at the April 2-10 event at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas.

It will be the first competition for Gushue, Gallant, vice Mark Nichols and lead Geoff Walker since the team's recent announcement that Gallant would be moving to a new rink next season.

"I think it's fair that there is going to be a different feeling maybe [at worlds]," Gallant said. "But at the same time, our team has overcome a lot of different challenges and distractions over the years.

"So I think once we focus on the curling and focus on the job at hand, I think that'll be in the background."

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The foursome has enjoyed a remarkable run together and will go down as one of the best teams in Canadian curling history. Gushue, Nichols and Walker plan to play together next season but there's no word yet on who will replace Gallant at second.

Along with their third-place finish at the Beijing Games, the team has won four of the last six national titles, a world championship in 2017 and 11 Grand Slam titles.

They'll try to finish strong in Vegas - where they settled for world silver in 2018 - before capping the campaign with two Grand Slam stops later this spring.

"The challenge we had last time we were in Vegas was all the distractions off the ice and also the ice quality was less than we desired," Gushue said. "We're prepared going in knowing that both of those things are probably still going to