Martin Finally Best In The World

Hello. Congrats to Kevin Martin and Team Canada for winning the Men's World Curling Championship. Canada beat Scotland 5-4 in the final Sunday. While the score was close, Canada really had command of this game after stealing in the 7th to go up 4-1.
Like Cathy Overton-Clapham, Kevin Martin had been knocking on the international door for a long time, about 20 years. So it's great he can now take his place along Russ and Glenn Howard and Randy Ferbey as the best curlers over the past 25 years without anyone saying he couldn't do it on the world stage.
Martin is now in the Olympic Trials set for December 2009 in his hometown of Edmonton. Do you think the promoters are excited? With the Ferbey and Kevin Koe rinks already in the preTrials in Prince Albert, and having a chance to get to Edmonton, it's a promoter's dream.
What will this win do to the Martin rink? I think it may take away some of the hunger, although Martin is the only one who has been to the Olympics.
It will be interesting to see how they do at the Players Championship this week in Newfoundland.
Congrats Martin for a long overdue world title!

Regards,
Steve