Curling: Chelsea Carey asks not to be compared to Jennifer Jones [Video]

Chelsea Carey wants to be clear. She’s not trying to fill Jennifer Jones’s curling shoes.

Carey has been handed the skipping reins of Jones’s young team ranked second in Canada and fourth in the world.

Six-time Canadian champion Jones, also a two-time world champ and an Olympic gold medallist, retired from team curling earlier this month after the final Grand Slam of the season.

“I don’t feel comfortable being put in the same conversation as Jennifer because I think she’s the greatest curler of all time at this moment,” Carey said. “People keep saying ‘you’re going to try to fill her shoes.’ I’m not going to try because no one can. I don’t think that’s possible.”

Jones’s former teammates, all Manitobans aged 25 and under, chose Carey to replace Jones and to skip them to the 2025 Olympic trials.

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