Gushue returns to N.L. after history-making Brier championship [Video]

Six-time curling national champion Brad Gushue returned to Newfoundland Monday evening, after he made curling history in Regina and cemented his place among the sport’s greatest athletes.

Gushue became the first skip to win six national titles when he beat Mike McEwen from the Saskatchewan team on Sunday night. Gushue and his team have now won six out of the last eight national championships — known as the Brier — and have won three in a row.

“Those are impressive things, but to be honest, we never went in there (with) that being our target,” he said at the St. John’s Airport, just after returning to the city. “It was always just we wanted to win this event. We wanted to have a great week, we wanted to have that moment in the final and we did.”

The win cemented his team among curling’s best. Gushue and longtime friend and …