Sudbury native Tracy Fleury and her rink of Rachel Homan (skip), Emma Miskew (second) and Sarah Wilkes have done it again.

Facing the Silvana Tirinzoni / Alina Paetz rink from Switzerland in a rematch of the 2024 final of the Women's World Curling Championship, Team Canada broke open a tight affair with a key steal of two in the eighth end, posting a 7-3 win.

In so doing, Team Homan became the first Canadian rink since the Sandra Schmirler squad (1993 & 1994) to capture back to back titles at the event.

All of this on the heels of a second consecutive Scotties Tournament of Hearts in which the number one ranked team in the world posted an unblemished 11-0 mark in route to the crown.

Such was not the case in South Korea this year as Canada dropped an 8-7 encounter to Scotland (Sophie Jackson) in the second draw and fell to the host rink (Eun-ji Gim) 11-7 in the 12th draw to finish round robin play at 10-2.

That record would leave Homan, Fleury and company trailing the Tirinzoni quartet (11-1 - including a 7-6 extra end loss to Canada) and tied with South Korea, but missing out on a bye to semi-finals given the triumph by Gim in the head to head matchup.

All of which meant one extra step for Canada as the team that is quickly mounting a resume that initiates a "greatest Canadian female rink ever" discussion bounced Scotland 10-4 in the playoff qualifying round rematch before downing Korea 6-5 in an extra end in the semi-finals.

While there are some season ending events still on the schedule, the Canadian juggernaut will now turn their attention on the Canadian Olympic Trials taking place in Halifax from November 22nd to November 30th, with a berth at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Italy on the line.

Curling with her Manitoba-based rink of Selena Njegovan, Liz Fyfe and Kristin MacCuish in 2021, Fleury lost in the 2022 Games Trials final to Jennifer Jones, narrowly missing out on the chance to represent Canada in Beijing a few months later.