The man behind Kevin Martin’s Canadian curling machine sits perched in the coach’s box. He has his binoculars out, so are his stack of curling papers.

And when things get tense on the ice for his team — not that it happens too often — he’s known to chew on one of his famous, unlit cigars.

Meet Martin’s mentor, curling mastermind Jules Owchar.

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