New Olympic ink for curler

It was a promise Cheryl Bernard figured she wouldn't have to keep.The Calgary curler made a deal with teammate Cori Bartel that if they qualified for the Olympics they'd get tattoos to mark the achievement.So when Bernard's rink won the Olympic trials in Edmonton last month, Bartel was quick to remind her skip about the agreement they'd made."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."The week after their victory, Bernard, Bartel and teammate Susan O'Connor headed to the tattoo parlour. The lone holdout was second Carolyn Darbyshire, whose daughter didn't want her to do it.The three curlers now have the colourful Olympic rings and a small Maple Leaf branded on the inside of their forearms.