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{{short description|Canadian curler}}
{{About|the Canadian curler|the  American political analyst|Linda Moore (businesswoman)}}
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{{MedalSport | Women's [[curling]] }}
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{{MedalCompetition | [[Olympic Games]] ''([[demonstration sport|demonstration]])'' }}
{{MedalGold | [[1988 Winter Olympics|1988 Calgary]] | [[Curling at the 1988 Winter Olympics|Women's]] }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[World Curling Championships|World Championships]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[1985 H&M World Women's Curling Championship|1985 Jönköping]] | [[List of World Curling Women's Champions|Women's]] }}
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'''Linda Moore''' (born '''Linda J. Tweedie''', February 24, 1954)<ref>[http://www.olympic.ca/en/athletes/linda-moore/ Canadian Olympic committee profiles], accessed March 15, 2010</ref> is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] world champion [[Curling|curler]]. From 1989 until 2014, she was a member of the [[The Sports Network|TSN]] curling coverage team along with [[Vic Rauter]] and [[Ray Turnbull (curler)|Ray Turnbull]] (replaced by [[Russ Howard]] in 2010).

==Career==
Moore was born in [[Vancouver]]. While enrolled as Masters of Business Administration student at the [[University of British Columbia]], Moore, a laid-off schoolteacher<ref>{{cite news|title=Moore studies her options|date=March 3, 1985|page=46|newspaper=Winnipeg Sun|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121405419/the-winnipeg-sun/|access-date=March 22, 2023}}</ref> skipped the British Columbia team to the [[1985 Scott Tournament of Hearts]] championship and went on to win the world championship that year.<ref>[http://sports123.com/cur/ww.html "Curling – Women: World Championships"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929000625/http://sports123.com/cur/ww.html |date=2018-09-29 }}, retrieved on March 27, 2008</ref> As skip of the defending champion Team Canada, she lost in the finals of the 1986 Scott Tournament of Hearts to [[Marilyn Darte]] after going 10-1 through the roundrobin. Moore was selected as skip on the tournament's all-star team.

Moore's rink defeated [[Connie Laliberte]] in the finals of the Canadian Olympic trials in 1987 and she skipped the Canadian team that finished first at the [[Curling at the 1988 Winter Olympics|demonstration event at the 1988 Winter Olympics]] in Calgary.

In 1989, she succeeded [[Vera Pezer]] as a member of TSN's curling broadcast team. She also served as executive director of [[Curl BC]] for 19 years.<ref name="broadcaster-2014-12-01">{{cite news|url=http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/tsn-curling-analyst-retires-from-broadcasting/1003374253/|title=TSN Curling Analyst Retires from Broadcasting|date=December 1, 2014|work=Broadcaster|accessdate=December 2, 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141202160804/http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/tsn-curling-analyst-retires-from-broadcasting/1003374253/|archive-date=December 2, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> On December 1, 2014, TSN announced that Moore had retired from broadcasting, citing an unspecified chronic health condition.<ref name="broadcaster-2014-12-01" />

==See also==
* [[Delbrook Senior Secondary School]]

==References==
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==External links==
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