What to watch in Olympic sports this weekend

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A pair of world championships and a near-major golf tournament highlight this weekend's slate for Canadian athletes on the world stage. Here are the key events:

Curling: Women's world championship

After defeating Jennifer Jones in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts final last month in Calgary to capture her fourth Canadian championship, Ottawa skip Rachel Homan will try to end a vexing dry spell for her country. Despite being home to most of the planet's best curlers, Canada has not won a world or Olympic title in any of the mainstream events (women's, men's and mixed doubles) in six years.

Homan might be just the one to halt the gold drought. She and Miskew (Homan's longtime third) won the world title in 2017, and with Fleury and Wilkes now on board the team looked nearly unstoppable at the Scotties. They went 11-0 to boost their record to a sparkling 49-5 this season, and they're No. 1 in the world rankings.

Homan's rink will have the support of a partisan crowd in Sydney N.S., which is hosting the women's worlds for the first time starting Saturday and running through next weekend. But they'll have to get past the likes of Swiss skip Silvana Tirinzoni, who's going for her fifth consecutive world title, and 2018 Olympic gold medallist Anna Hasselborg of Sweden.

Short track speed skating: World championships

Several Canadians should contend for the podium in the Netherlands, where sold-out crowds are expected for the medal events on Saturday and Sunday in the cradle of long track skating. There are individual 500m, 1,000m and 1,500m races for both men and women, plus