For Canada, the win restores a sense of curling supremacy that had been questioned after two medal-less men’s tournaments. Canadian curling fans, who pack arenas and watch millions on television, have long expected gold. The twelve-year gap felt like an eternity.
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“This is for every kid who curls in a small-town rink,” Jacobs said. “Gold is always the goal. We never lost sight of it.”
The 2026 gold also adds to Jacobs’ legacy. He is now one of only a handful of curlers with multiple Olympic gold medals, joining the ranks of Sweden’s Niklas Edin (2022), Canada’s Kevin Martin (2010), and legendary skip Ernie Richardson, whose teams won four world championships in the 1960s (though curling only returned as an official Olympic sport in 1998).
As the Canadian national anthem played over the Milano Cortina ice, Jacobs and his teammates stood atop the podium, holding gold. The drought was over. And for one night, Canada was again the king of men’s curling.
