Kate Caithness

[1] On 29 December 2012 Kate Caithness was bestowed the honour of an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for services to curling and international disability sport.

It was presented to her by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at a ceremony in Edinburgh, Scotland.

It is a great honour and is wonderful recognition for the sport of curling and wheelchair curling and all those involved in playing and developing the sport.” She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to Sport.

“Television brings the focus to our sport and it has since Nagano ’98 when all those ski events kept getting postponed by weather and they went to curling instead.

“In Vancouver we had 1,125 hours of curling broadcast in 35 territories and that includes Europe, where we have 38 member associations as one.

I think what China loves is that it’s chess on ice.” “It’s like in 2009 we took the women’s world championships to Gangneung, Korea where the 2018 Winter Olympics will be held.

It was Sweden vs China in the final and it drew a live audience of 65 million worldwide.

“Any time you can get 65 million people around the world watching anything live that’s an incredible number of viewers.”