Can a team from a hot country excel in ice sport like winter Olympic Curling what the Philippine National Curling Team made up of four Fil-Swiss players wants to prove as it prepares to compete for a spot at the Winter Olympic 2026 in Italy.

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Alan Frei a Filipino-Swiss businessman and team spokesperson said the Philippine men’s team won a silver medal in the B Division of the Pancontinental Curling Championships in Kelowna Canada in 2023.

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The team aims to repeat the feat this October in Alberta to advance to Division A at the 2025 championships. The top two teams will guaranteed spots at the Winter Olympic 2026 in Italy.

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Relatively new to curling Frei joined the Philippine team in March 2023 a year after selling his Swiss commerce business deciding to become an Olympic athlete. Christian Haller a two-time world junior championship medalist and brothers Marc and Enrico Pfister compete for Switzerland in world curling championships. All those born in Switzerland like and the Pfister brothers can play for the country thanks to their Filipino mothers.

 It combination of strategy and physical skill. We have a big advantage in the strategic part because we have the experience of the three guys who have played on the world stage.

 To test their skills even further the National Men’s Curling Team will compete in an off season tournament this August the Baden Master’s in Switzerland where they will face world number one Italy in their first match. Frei currently ranked 51st in the World Curling Member Association men’s rankings said the team is excited to play Italy. You can read Olympic Curling qualification system for Winter Olympic 2026 Games.

The Swiss-Filipino team hopes that Filipinos can become aware of their goals and what they have doing to inspire them even more Frei said the curling team currently assumes all of its expenses citing its need to achieve success first before asking for financial support from the POC and other potential sponsors.

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Swiss-Filipino athletes also hope to stand on the podium against top Asian countries like China and Korea at the 2025 Asian Winter Olympic Games in Harbin to gain national recognition.

The curling team aims to pave the way for the country’s future curling athletes in their bid for the winter Olympic Games. We are trying to foster Filipino talent just by a role model and having this super ambitious goal.

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As the host country Italy automatically qualifies for each event. If you decline your place in any event, you will reassigned to the next highest ranked and not yet ranked National Olympic Committee from the Olympic Qualification Event. This process will repeat until the quota is filled according to World Curling.

The eight highest-ranked National Olympic Committees from a list generate by Olympic qualification points earned at the 2024 and 2025 women’s men’s and mixed doubles World Championships will qualify for the Winter Olympic Games. But, If the host country Italy is not among the top eight in the respective event only the seven highest ranked National Olympic Committees will qualify in this way for the Winter Olympic Games.

National Olympic Committees (NOCs) ranked 9th to 13th will be qualified based on the results of the 2024 and 2025 World Championships. The top three NOCs from the pre-qualification event to held in autumn 2025.

All mixed doubles teams that have qualified for the 2025 World Championship but have not yet qualified for the Winter Olympic 2026 Games through points earned at this Championship or by hosting the Winter Olympic 2026. If this results in fewer than 16 teams, the next highest ranked NOC will invited until all 16 OQE spots filled.

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With the help of the POC and national sports associations, the team plans to hold exhibition tournaments in the country and provide training to aspiring Filipino curlers. The Philippine Curling Winter Sports Association, of which the team is a part, also aims to increase its membership from about 50 to 100 people this year, according to Frei.

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Frei said Filipino communities come out to support them wherever they play in the world. With the sole goal of achieving their dream of honoring the country, But, Frei revealed that they wanted to achieve what the Jamaican bobsled team achieved at the 1988 Winter Olympic in Calgary. Welcomed as the underdogs in a cold-weather sport, the Jamaicans competed against all odds and emerged as favorites.

We don’t have a plan B. We only have one plan and that is to go to the winter Olympic Games, Frei concluded. The pre-qualification event is open to all NOCs that have qualified for the 2024 (to be held in Schaffhausen) or 2025 World Championships but have not qualified for the Olympic Winter Games or the OQE. There will be no pre-qualifying event for Mixed Doubles Curling.

Also all NOCs that have qualified for Division A of the AOP European Curling Championships 2024 or 2025 in Le Gruyère or for Division A of the Pan-Continental Curling Championships 2024 or 2025 but have not yet qualified for the Olympic Winter Games or the OQEs.  The top three National Olympic Committees from the pre-qualification event will advance to the Olympic 2026 Qualifying Event.

Olympic Curling Canada has announced that the three major qualifying events to determine Canada’s representatives at the Winter Olympic 2026 will take place in Nova Scotia. One city is preparing to host for the first time.

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In an announcement, the official governing body of curling in Canada announced that events will held in Halifax, Liverpool and Wolfville. Halifax and Liverpool have previously welcomed curling from across the country, but the upcoming qualifying cycle marks the first time Olympic Curling Canada will host an event in the city of Wolfville.

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Nova Scotia boasts a vibrant curling community and a provincial government that has clearly expressed the importance of these events to them, and I know the province will do an outstanding job to make these events memorable for everyone, said Danny Lamoureux, acting boss.

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