{"id":10491,"date":"2026-02-12T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/10491\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:20:00","slug":"canadas-rachel-homan-tops-denmark-in-opener-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/10491\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Rachel Homan tops Denmark in opener &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Gregory Strong<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted February 12, 2026 5:07 am\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>CORTINA D\u2019AMPEZZO \u2013 Canada\u2019s Rachel Homan opened women\u2019s curling round-robin play Thursday with a 10-4 victory over Denmark\u2019s Madeleine Dupont at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Homan controlled the game after stealing four points in the fifth end. She added three more in the seventh end and Denmark conceded.<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa-based team of Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes is one of the medal favourites in the 10-team field.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRelated Videos\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Canada wins silver in short-track speedskating mixed team relay'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SHORT_SKATING_VMS.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t0:30<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCanada wins silver in short-track speedskating mixed team relay\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Canada opened with a deuce after Fleury made a double-takeout and rolled under cover. Denmark replied with a pair, steal and force that left the game tied 3-3 after four ends.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark had hammer in the fifth but Canada took advantage of some Danish misses to surround the button under cover.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11663808\/canada-mass-shootings-firearm-laws\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5e89db70109b7d84370506adc276bcb6865f88c7ed9eb3e3638d49ac1f708235_ce05cf.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tMass shootings have prompted Canadian gun laws to change over the decades\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11663209\/tumbler-ridge-school-shooting-bc-rcmp-live-latest\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CP175772673.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTumbler Ridge shooting: 5 students, teacher dead as BC RCMP identifies shooter\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Danes tried to limit the damage but Dupont could only remove one Canadian stone on the four-foot ring to give Canada a game-turning score.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden\u2019s Anna Hasselborg, Switzerland\u2019s Silvana Tirinzoni and Stefania Constantini of host Italy are skipping some of the other top teams in the round-robin draw.<\/p>\n<p>This is Homan\u2019s third consecutive Olympic appearance. She has yet to reach the podium.<\/p>\n<p>The Calgary-based men\u2019s team skipped by Brad Jacobs was idle Thursday. The Canadian men opened with a 7-6 extra-end victory over Germany on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Gregory Strong The Canadian Press Posted February 12, 2026 5:07 am 1 min read Descrease article font&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8258,27,26,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-10491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denmark","8":"tag-2026-olympics","9":"tag-danmark","10":"tag-denmark","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}