2011 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts 30, 12:15 PM CT" "January 30, 4:00 PM CT" 2011 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts The 2011 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Manitoba's women's provincial curling championship, was held January 26–30 in Altona, Manitoba at the Sunflower Gardens Arena. The winning team of Cathy Overton-Clapham represented team Manitoba at the 2011 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The team went 4-7 in round robin play. The sixteen Manitoba Safeway qualifiers are selected through the 1-9 rural zones, the 10-14 Winnipeg zones, the winning team from the Berth Bonspiel, and the CurlManitoba Women's Bonspiel winner from the previous
Winter sport in Australia The Alpine regions are subject to environmental protection, which has limited the scope of commercial development of skiiable terrain, however Australia has extensive cross country skiing terrain. The sport of snowboarding is also popular in the Australian skifields and Australia has been represented at the Olympics in this sport ever since it debuted at Nagano in 1998. Torah Bright, of the Snowy Mountains town of Cooma, New South Wales, won gold for Australia at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 in the women's snowboard halfpipe event. Australia finished on top of the medal tally at the snowboarding world championships in 2012.