News has broken – a tad early – that Canada’s CBC Sports will deliver a five-headed curling monster from the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

Former curling champs-turned-broadcasters Jennifer Jones and Joanne Courtney are part of the broadcast team for mixed doubles and four-player curling.

Reliable play-by-play man Bruce Rainnie and analysis stalwart Mike Harris, another Olympian, are also on the squad.

Another surprise is former TSN curling play-by-play man Bryan Mudryk, who will return to the granite game as the reporter, based at the curling venue in Cortina.

Mudryk worked TSN Curling’s morning draws with Cathy Gauthier and also sideline reported on the playoff rounds. He left after the 2024 season to focus on Montreal Canadiens hockey coverage.

This week marks 100 days before the official start of the Games. Curling starts two days early – on Feb. 4 – and roars through the entire Games, finishing up just before the closing ceremony.

Courtney – who also works on TSN curling coverage – and Harris worked with Rainnie nearly four years ago at the COVID-wracked Beijing 2022 Olympics.

All three were based in Toronto, stuffed into “closet” broadcast booths which provided for numerous funny photos.

The new foursome (minus Mudryk) will again be at CBC headquarters in T.O. but this time they’ll be located in a somewhat more spacious studio environment.

Five voices is a record for curling coverage, but it only begins to get curling closer to the multi-headed monster that is hockey coverage.

The addition of Jones and Mudryk should mean a bit of talent rotation opportunities, and Rainnie should get a few breaks on the play-by-play duties.

This also might allow parallel coverage of other games not involving Canada, particularly as playoff scenarios draw near.

Jones first made her move into the broadcast booth at Sportsnet.

This will not mark Jones’ debut as an Olympic curling broadcaster, however.

Way back in 2010, she was invited to the Vancouver Games as a correspondent for Yahoo Sports.

(We had the scoop before anyone else, but we kind of slept on it.)

Harris and Jones are off to Lake Tahoe, Nev. next week to televise the first-ever U.S. Grand Slam for Sportsnet.

Joanne Courtney made a surprise appearance on the Rock Channel livestreams at the last Slam in Nisku, Alta… will she also be heading south of the border, we wonder?