A week that raised questions at the 2025 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials in Halifax was punctuated by an exclamation mark by Team Homan on Saturday.

The team of Rachel Homan (skip), Sudbury native Tracy Fleury (third), Emma Miskew (second) and Sarah Wilkes (lead) overcame some bumps along the way, earning their trip to Italy with a 12-3 thumping of the Christina Black foursome in sweeping the best of three final, two games to none.

Sure, the team that have held the #1 ranking in the world for almost two full years now saw a 32-game win streak (against Canadian opponents) snapped early in the week.

And there were certainly some wins that proved far more difficult than many might have expected, including the 5-4 affair that opened this best of three tilt. But when push came to shove, it was made very clear exactly why the Canadian powerhouse are two-time defending world champions.

Trading deuces in the first two ends following a game one encounter where neither team ever scored more than a single point, Team Homan blew the finale wide open in the third end, scoring four and following that up with a steal of one (in the fourth) and two (in the fifth), holding a 9-2 lead at the break.

Where Homan curled at 74% on Friday afternoon, the Ottawa native was produced a dazzling 95% affair to wrap things up as the squad found a way to deal with the no-win expectations that anything short of earning the Olympic bid would be an absolute disaster.

In the end, a week that saw the team finish with an 8-1 record despite not being at their best speaks more to the incredible standard that the Canadian curling community have come to expect from the women who will now enter the 2026 Winter Olympic Games as gold medal favourites.