Tattoo and Stud

When Team Bernard won the Roar of the Ring, they became Olympians, and when that happened, they had to be ready to answer any kind of questions, even the weirdest because journalists started to dare asking them. And they dare asking them, even in a middle of an intense training session. Cheryl complied with a smile.

Cheryl fit... not just to curl

Cheryl Bernard is probably one of the fittest curlers on the circuit but it wasn’t always this way. Not that she was not fit or anything, but not that much. It is about 10 years ago that she understood the benefit to be even fitter could do to her, and to her performance in her sport. And it is not something she is going to stop anytime soon.

She is not just doing it because she plays a sport, but mostly because she enjoys it, she got the time and takes it, she thinks it’s good for her and it’s definitively not a chore. She trains an hour or so everyday and it is hard core training ladies and gentlemen: a very intense routine. After that, she might even go out jogging with her dog. That doesn’t including her time on ice throwing stones. Apparently, she would love to do a triathlon competition in a near future.

The Proof

Ok, ladies and gentlemen, here’s the proof...


A proof of what exactly? That Cheryl is in a great shape? That Cheryl has a great shape? Stunning isn’t she? Well, mainly, it is the proof of the tattoo she got a week after Team Bernard won the Roar of the rings, which qualified them for the 2010 Olympics winter games, remember?

She confirmed that Cori and Susan got it did got it but Carolyn, after pleas from her daughter didn’t do it after all.

"It was probably two or three years ago when we started this process and Cori and I are actually the ones who kind of decided this is what we're going to do," Bernard said in an interview Thursday at her Calgary gym. "I don't know that I ever believed it would happen and Cori reminded me the minute we won."

"I'm like, if I'm ever going to get a tattoo this is going to be the one I wanted," Bernard said. "It's something even my grandmother would approve of."

"It hurt a lot," she said. "this is the first and the last."

For Cheryl, the tattoo means "the hard work, and proud to be Canadian"