Weekend recap: Homan ends Canada's curling title drought

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The great Canadian curling drought is over! Plus, the host country added another medal at the figure skating world championships in Montreal while Canadians scored a hat trick of World Cup titles on the slopes. Here's what to know from an exceptional weekend of Olympic and Paralympic sports:

Rachel Homan's team won Canada's first major curling title in six years.

Last night in Sydney, N.S., Homan's foursome defeated Switzerland 7-5 to capture the women's world championship. It's Canada's first world or Olympic title in women's, men's or mixed doubles curling since Jennifer Jones' victory at the 2018 worlds in North Bay, Ont.

That's quite the dry spell, considering Canada is home to most of the world's best curlers. And Homan was one of the faces of her country's struggles in big international events. After winning her first world title in three tries in 2017, she missed the playoffs twice at the Olympics: in the women's event in 2018 and in mixed doubles with John Morris in 2022. 

But, this year, Homan raised her game to another level. Less than six months after giving birth to her third child, the 34-year-old Ottawa skip captured her fourth Canadian title, beating Jones in the final to complete a perfect 11-0 run at the Scotties. Homan and her teammates Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes were nearly flawless at the world championship too, going 13-1 to up their record this season to an incredible 62-6.

The only blemish was a meaningless loss to South Korea in the final draw of the round-robin on Friday night, after Canada had clinched the top seed for the