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The Canadian mixed doubles curling team won’t make the playoffs at the Winter Olympics.
Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman dropped a 9-5 decision to South Korea’s Seonyeong Kim and Yeongseok Jeong on Sunday night at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium.
Canada’s fifth straight loss in round-robin play ensured they won’t make the top-four cut.
Gallant and Peterman, who fell to Sweden’s Rasmus Wrana and Isabella Wrana earlier in the day, made it a one-point game with a deuce in the sixth end. South Korea answered with a pair in the seventh and Canada missed a double-runback attempt for the tie in the eighth.
“It kind of sucks because we had it in our hands this morning,” Canadian coach Scott Pfeifer said from Italy. “So if we’d won out, we knew we were in the playoffs.”
Canada will take a 3-5 record into its round-robin finale Monday at 4:05 a.m. ET against Switzerland’s Yannick Schwaller and Briar Schwaller-Huerlimann
Canada’s John Morris and Kaitlyn Lawes won gold at the Pyeongchang Games in 2018 when mixed doubles made its Olympic debut. Canada missed the playoffs four years later in Beijing when Morris teamed with Rachel Homan.
Republic of Korea defeated Canada 9-5 in mixed doubles curling, and with the loss Canada’s Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant cannot advance to the playoff round.
