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Episode 68 - Lindsay Sparkes
Curling Legends Podcast
English - July 17, 2020 00:39 - 1 hour - 60.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSports brier curl curling scotties sport sports Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 67 - Glen Jackson/Doug Wilson
Next Episode: Episode 69 - Resby Coutts
Lindsay Sparkes was driven by a desire to improve rather than by competition. Leaving figure skating for curling she replaced judges with a scoreboard and by focusing on her own ability, eventually the winning took care of itself. Joined by childhood friends Dawn Knowles, Robin Klassen and Lorraine Bowles, Lindsay skipped her young team to the Provincial and Canadian Championship in 1976. They repeated in 1979, with the added pressure of representing Canada at the first ever Women's World Championship in Perth, Scotland. Lindsay shares stories from those early years and her later success, winning the Worlds and Olympics with Linda Moore, and why she stepped away from competition and became a national coach.