Ted Wyman - Ice Gold: Canadas Curling Champions

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Jennifer Jones at age 17 in 1992. She skipped a team to the Manitoba final that year but lost to former teammate Tracey Lavery (top). | SHAUN BEST/ WINNIPEG SUN /QMI AGENCY

Kaitlyn Lawes was one of the most promising young curlers in Manitoba in 2007 and she found success despite dealing with her father Keiths illness and death that year. | JASON HALSTEAD

Jennifer Jones and Kelly MacKenzie chat after the Manitoba junior womens final in 1995. MacKenzie won that game and went on to Canadian and world junior championships, while Jones was robbed of a chance to represent her country because of a Canadian Curling Association decision. | SHAUN BEST/ WINNIPEG SUN /QMI AGENCY

Ryan Fry at age 15 in 1993. He won two Manitoba junior championships but never found a home with a team in his province, so he went looking for one elsewhere. | WINNIPEG SUN ARCHIVES/QMI AGENCY

Even back when they were pre-teens, Brad Jacobs (left) and Ryan Harnden (front right) were already turning heads in the curling world. Their first team included Matt Premo (middle, back) and Scott Seabrook (right, back) along with coach Eric Harnden. | R.J. FROST/ SAULT STAR /QMI AGENCY

Jennifer Jones (centre) and Jill Officer (left) had already won a Scotties championship but the team really took off when it added Dawn Askin (right) as lead for the 200708 season. | JASON HALSTEAD

Brothers and best friends, E.J. (right) and Ryan Harnden followed in their dad Erics footsteps and started curling together as teenagers. | IAN MACALPINE/ KINGSTON WHIG-STANDARD /QMI AGENCY

Among the giants of curling Brad Jacobs had to beat to win the 2013 Brier in Edmonton was four-time world champion Glenn Howard (right). Jacobs beat Howard 9-7 in the semifinal and has been impressing ever since. | CODIE MCLACHLAN/ EDMONTON SUN /QMI AGENCY

Winning the Brier was a lifelong dream come true for coach Tom Coulterman, Brad Jacobs, Ryan Fry, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden and fifth player Matt Dumontelle. | CODIE MCLACHLAN/ EDMONTON SUN /QMI AGENCY

While they won four Canadian championships and one world title together, things werent always perfect between Cathy Overton-Clapham and Jennifer Jones, and despite being one of the best thirds in the world, Overton-Clapham was unceremoniously dumped after the 2010 season. | REUTERS/ANDY CLARK

The Jones team won the Manitoba title in 2012, clinching an eighth straight appearance in the national Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they were perennial contenders. | JASON HALSTEAD/ WINNIPEG SUN /QMI AGENCY

Janet Arnott was a fifth player and lead with the Jones team before settling into the role of coach. Eventually she became Jennifer Joness go-to person. | IAN MACALPINE/ KINGSTON WHIG-STANDARD /QMI AGENCY

Fist bumps, broom slams and full-throated belly roars are the signatures of the Jacobs team and they were on full display at the Olympic Trials in Winnipeg. E.J. Harnden reacts to a score of two in the ninth end of the final against John Morris. | KEVIN KING/ WINNIPEG SUN /QMI AGENCY

Dawn McEwen (right) and Jill Officer sweep a rock during the 2013 Olympic Trials in Winnipeg. | KEVIN KING/ WINNIPEG SUN /QMI AGENCY

The addition of Ryan Fry to the lineup in 2012-13 helped propel the Jacobs foursome to its first Brier title in March of 2013 in Edmonton and to a perfect record at the Olympic Trials in his hometown of Winnipeg. | BRIAN DONOGH/ WINNIPEG SUN /QMI AGENCY

Kaitlyn Lawes proved to be the perfect third for Jennifer Jones loyal and not apt to disagree with her leader. | KEVIN KING/ WINNIPEG SUN /QMI AGENCY

Young and unapologetically enthusiastic, Brad Jacobs, Ryan Fry, E.J. Harnden and Ryan Harnden plowed through the Olympic Trials in Winnipeg, becoming the first mens team to win it with a perfect record. | KEVIN KING/ WINNIPEG SUN /QMI AGENCY

The Jones team beat Sherry Middaugh 8-4 in the final of the Roar of the Rings Olympic Trials in Winnipeg, and a lifelong dream of qualifying for the Olympics was finally realized. | KEVIN KING/ WINNIPEG SUN /QMI AGENCY