| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women'scurling | ||
| Representing | ||
| Olympic Games(demonstration) | ||
| 1988 Calgary | Women's | |
| World Championships | ||
| 1985 Jönköping | Women's | |
Linda Moore (bornLinda J. Tweedie, February 24, 1954)[1] is aCanadian world championcurler. From 1989 until 2014, she was a member of theTSN curling coverage team along withVic Rauter andRay Turnbull (replaced byRuss Howard in 2010).
Moore was born inVancouver. While enrolled as Masters of Business Administration student at theUniversity of British Columbia, Moore, a laid-off schoolteacher[2] skipped the British Columbia team to the1985 Scott Tournament of Hearts championship and went on to win the world championship that year.[3] As skip of the defending champion Team Canada, she lost in the finals of the 1986 Scott Tournament of Hearts toMarilyn Darte after going 10-1 through the roundrobin. Moore was selected as skip on the tournament's all-star team.
Moore's rink defeatedConnie Laliberte in the finals of the Canadian Olympic trials in 1987 and she skipped the Canadian team that finished first at thedemonstration event at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
In 1989, she succeededVera Pezer as a member of TSN's curling broadcast team. She also served as executive director ofCurl BC for 19 years.[4] On December 1, 2014, TSN announced that Moore had retired from broadcasting, citing an unspecified chronic health condition.[4]
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