Your guide to an action-packed Olympic sports weekend

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With hardly a break through the weekend, you can completely immerse yourself in Olympic sports, including Canadian and world championships. Here's what and how to watch:

Curling

The Brier, Canada's men's curling championship, gets going with its first draw on Friday at 7 p.m. ET in London, Ont. The winner both goes on to compete at the world championship, which begins on April 1 in Ottawa, and gains an automatic berth to the 2024 Brier as Team Canada. Since 2016, just three skips have so much as reached the Brier final, with defending champion Brad Gushue taking four titles to Kevin Koe's two and Brendan Bottcher's one. Ken Pomeroy, who rose to fame for his college basketball analysis but also produces curling models, ranks Gushue as the top men's player in the world, with Bottcher fourth and Koe eighth. Koe beat Bottcher in the Alberta qualifying final, meaning Bottcher will enter as a wild-card rink. Another wrinkle for Gushue is Curling Canada's clarification today that if he doesn't win again, he'll have to make changes to his team due to residency rules. Read more about the Gushue dilemma here.

If you're looking for someone to upset the apple cart, Pomeroy's model lists Manitoba's Matt Dunstone as the sixth in the world. Fellow Manitoban Reid Carruthers, ranked 11th, is another underdog candidate.

CBC Sports' That Curling Show, featuring six-time Scotties champion Colleen Jones and curling reporter Devin Heroux, returns tonight with a full Brier preview show featuring Gushue and Ben Hebert, who plays lead for Bottcher. Watch it live on CBC Sports' YouTube tonight