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Al Hackner, a two-time Brier and two-time world curling champion, on Tuesday used the send-off party ahead of his 19th trip to a national competition — the 2022 Canadian Senior’s Curling Championship in Yarmouth, N.S. — to announced he’s stepping away from competitive curling at the highest level.
“It was a little bit of everything,” Hackner said. “I know my wife and I want to travel a bit more, so that’s part of it. The other thing is my knees have been giving me a really hard time the last couple of years and I’ve really got to work hard to get my slide down. It’s a lot of pain and anguish and if I keep playing, it’s not going to get any better.
Coming off a recent win at the Canadian Masters Curling Championship in Winnipeg, Hackner will go down as one of the greatest to ever play the sport, the unquestioned skip on the Northern Ontario men’s Mount Rushmore of Curling. “We weren’t ever saying we were going to win. We all went, ‘We won? That’s pretty cool.’ And then from there, once you reach that level and as I went on in my time, playing seniors and playing masters was just a natural evolution into competition.”
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