OTTAWA — He’s a two-time world champion and a three-time Brier winner and now Kevin Koe can add Olympian to his lengthy list of accomplishments.

Koe and his Calgary teammates Mark Kennedy, Brent Laing and Ben Hebert beat Winnipeg’s Mike McEwen 7-6 in the final of the Canadian Olympic curling trials Sunday night a the Canadian Tire Centre.

They played a tremendous game in the final, just as they did all week while going 7-1 in the round robin, and needed everything they could muster against an extremely tough McEwen team.

In an absolute classic of a game, Koe had to make a draw to the four-foot against two McEwen rocks in the 10th end to secure the win. He needed all three of his sweepers, working their hardest, to get it there. It made for high drama, but they got it there.

“I didn’t want to be heavy . . . I wanted to give the boys a chance to sweep it,” Koe said. “I honestly wasn’t sure it was gonna make it but what sweeping by the boys. I’m just so happy for the team.”

The foursome will represent Canada at the Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea Feb. 9-25.

It will be the second trip to the Olympics for Kennedy and Hebert, who won gold medals in 2010 with the Kevin Martin team. However, it’s the first Olympic appearance for Koe, 42, who won world championships in 2016 and 2010, and Laing, who has three world titles (2016 with Koe, 2012 and 2007 with Glenn Howard). Laing won the Olympic trials on his 39th birthday.

“It’s hard to put into words . . . it’s unbelievable,” Koe said. “What a game. We beat a great team and I’m glad we had last rock.

“You plan for this event for four years and it’s so hard, especially in Canada where you have nine of the greatest teams in the world and we got it done. Given the circumstances, I couldn’t be happier.”

It was truly a shame that one team had to lose this game. Both played splendidly and either team would have made fine Olympic representatives.

“I gave it everything I had,” said McEwen, who curled a remarkable 95%. “I had one of my best games of the week. There wasn’t anything more to do.

“I played my heart out. We win and die as a team and we just didn’t quite generate enough opportunities. They played really well. It was tough out there.

“We stuck together, we grinded as hard as we could, we managed the game as best we could given the shots that were there. We didn’t beat ourselves in our headspace and I thought that was a win for us, 100%. That’s what we wanted to do this week and we succeeded in doing that.”

Koe had the hammer in the first end and he almost always wins when that’s the case. He’s now 22-2 this year when he has the hammer to start.

But McEwen forced him to one and then the teams traded singles in the second and third ends. The first deuce came in the fourth when McEwen made a double with his last rock and stuck it in the four-foot.

Koe got the deuce right back in the fifth and got a pivotal steal of one in the sixth on one of McEwen’s only misses of the game. His come-around tap-back attempt for two was a touch heavy and his shooter rolled too far.

McEwen got back to even by scoring a deuce in the seventh, but Koe scored in the pivotal eighth end and held McEwen to one in the ninth to set up the dramatic 10th.

Hebert played two perfect tick shots to open the ninth, clearing guards off the centre line. That kept the line clear to the four-foot and Koe took full advantage, doing what all great skips do and hitting the four-foot with his last rock.

He was cool and calm, his sweepers helped the shot along beautifully and they were all worthy of the name: Olympians.

The whole team made the last shot. Koe let it go and the other three made sure it got into the four-foot.

How perfectly fitting.

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