17-03-2018 16:55 via thestarphoenix.com

Emotional Paralympic bronze for Moose Jaw's Marie Wright and Canadian curling team

GANGNEUNG, Korea, Republic Of — A Canadian curling team that had laughed and smiled its way through a roller-coaster Pyeongchang Paralympics was a puddle of tears after capturing bronze.
Moments after Mark Ideson, Ina Forrest, Dennis Thiessen and Marie Wright edged hosts South Korea 5-3 in Saturday morning’s bronze-medal game, the four raised their arms triumphantly. They gathered for a group hug. And they cried.
For Thiessen, a 49-year-old from Sanford, Man., the tears were about hi
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