Olympics Over? Where to Watch More Curling

The DMs are piling up. People loved the Olympic TV/streaming viewing guides we published for Canadians – both mixed doubles and teams (fours) – and we even produced a mixed doubles guide for Americans, too.

Now y’all want to know where you can watch MORE CURLING. And even the savvy curling fans here who know about most/all of the options probably know someone who went bonkers for it during the Olympics, and needs another sweet granite injection into their veins. 

Here we go…

SWISS NATIONALS

The annual national championships are underway from Bern, and end with the finals on Feb. 28. Select sheets have been equipped with stationary cameras for live streaming, and there appear to be player microphones in action. There’s a chance coverage will become more robust in time for the championship finals.

Watch the SWISSCURLING nationals online here.

USA NATIONALS

The U.S. men’s and women’s fours championships are underway at Bojangles Coliseum (we love that name) in Charlotte, NC, but without the two Olympic teams, Peterson and Casper. Sure, they deserve a rest.

John Shuster is there, of course, looking to return to the worlds and this is the last U.S. championship for his third man, Chris Plys, who is retiring after this season.

The championships conclude with the finals on Mar. 1, and there are two kinds of coverage. First, featured games are neatly packaged by Stadium Sports Network (SSN) with multiple cameras, font boards and player microphones.

Other selected sheets have been equipped with static cameras for bare-bones viewing. We’re not sure about player microphones in the latter example, but there is plenty of ambient sound in the building – fans will simply have to decipher which team is yelling the loudest. 

Find the streams on the USA Curling YouTube page; like the Swiss page, it’s not geoblocked so fans from anywhere can watch.

WORLD JUNIORS / WOMEN / MEN / MIXED DOUBLES

The World Juniors are now underway from Taarnby, Denmark through Mar. 3 and World Curling’s The Curling Channel has full streaming coverage available. Single pay-per-view games can be purchased at US $2.49 or the full event costs US $9.99. 

However…

Fans can also purchase a half-season package and get four championships in total, running through early May.

You would get the juniors, the world women’s championship (Mar. 14-22 in Calgary), the world men’s championship (Mar. 27-April. 4 from Ogden, UT) and the world mixed doubles championship (Geneva, SUI Apr. 25 - May 2) all for US $64.99.

That includes a) the full season archives (incl. European championships and the Olympic Qualifying Events) and b) repeat viewing options through May 31.

The Curling Channel is professional quality, multi-camera game coverage with font boards, player microphones, pro commentators – the works.

Find The Curling Channel packages here.

THE BRIER

The 99th Canadian men’s curling championship starts Friday, Feb. 27 in St. John’s NL with the championship final taking place Sunday, Mar. 8. 

Domestic coverage is on TSN and TSN+, as well as RDS/RDS2 and RDS Direct in Quebec.

Will TSN once again livestream their featured games to an international audience, as they did during the Olympic Trials and the women’s STOH championship, at this special link?

We’ll just have to wait a bit longer to find out…

PARALYMPIC WINTER GAMES

Wheelchair curling is back for the Paralympics, again from the Cortina Olympic Curling Stadium, running Mar. 4-14.

This is a mixed (male and female) competition. Each sheet features Ice Player Assistants (IPAs) who corral the stones during each end and produce them for the players, who use a delivery stick to throw. One player usually braces the wheelchair of the thrower, for added stability. 

There is no sweeping, but sometimes the athletes scream at their stones anyway.

We endorse this. Sometimes the stones listen.

Consult your domestic rights holder to find the network that is broadcasting the Paralympic Winter Games in your country.

OLYMPIC REPEATS

Some nations allow their citizens to go back into their streaming platform and watch archived Olympic curling games. There is often a time limit whereupon the archive will be removed from the platform.

Consider rewatching your favourite games, or watch games you missed for the first time.

There were 147 curling matches played during the Olympic Winter Games in Cortina.

So. Much. Curling.