Linda Moore (born February 24, 1954 in

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as Linda J. Tweedie) is a

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world champion curler. From 1989 until 2014, she was a member of the TSN curling coverage team along with

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and formerly Ray Turnbull (replaced by

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in 2010).

Career

While working as a schoolteacher, Moore skipped the British Columbia team to the

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championship and went on to win the world championship that year."Curling – Women: World Championships"
, retrieved on March 27, 2008 As skip of the defending champion Team Canada, she lost in the finals of the 1986 Scott Tournament of Hearts to

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after going 10-1 through the roundrobin. Moore was selected as skip on the tournament's all-star team. Moore's rink defeated

Connie Laliberte Connie Laliberte (born October 21, 1960) is a Canadian curler from Manitoba and world champion. In 2019, Laliberte was named the tenth greatest Canadian curler in history in a TSN poll of broadcasters, reporters and top curlers. Championships ...

in the finals of the Canadian Olympic trials in 1987 and she skipped the Canadian team that finished first at the demonstration event at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. In 1989, she succeeded

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as a member of TSN's curling broadcast team. She also served as executive director of

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for 19 years. On December 1, 2014, TSN announced that Moore had retired from broadcasting, citing an unspecified chronic health condition.

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* Canadian women curlers World curling champions Curling broadcasters Curlers from Vancouver Living people 1954 births Canadian women's curling champions Medalists at the 1988 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Canada {{Canada-curling-bio-stub

Career

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