CHAMPIONSHIPS USA reaches podium at World Mixed Doubles By Terry L. Davis, Editor
Scotland, 9-7, to win bronze at Löfergs Lila Arena. Te win by Peterson (St. Paul, Minn.) and Polo (Duluth, Minn.) over
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Scotland’s Gina Aitken and Bruce Mouat at the 2016 World Mixed Doubles Championship in Karlstad, Sweden, secures 10 points for the Americans toward qualifying for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, when mixed dou- bles will debut as a medal sport. “Te whole game was back and forth, back and forth, big ends here, big
ends there, so it was really nerve-racking,” said Peterson, 27. “We just hap- pened to make a good one in the eighth end, and it was good enough for a steal. Getting so many Olympic qualification points is great, I mean we cannot be any happier for that as well as for getting a medal for ourselves. I think USA is proud, and we are proud.” Russia’s Anastasia Brygalova and Alexander Krushelnitskiy, who de-
feated the U.S. in the semifinals earlier in the day, went on to earn the gold medal aſter getting past China, 7-5. Te U.S. team made a great shot to secure a point in the opening end
to get on the scoreboard first. Scotland was poised to score four points in the second end but settled for three to take their only lead of the game. Te Americans bettered that output by converting a takeout to score four points in the third end. Te U.S. would extend the lead aſter that when Aitken’s final draw of the fourth was short to give the Americans a steal of two and a 7-3 lead at halſtime. Not backing down, Scotland took advantage of a few half-shots by the
U.S. to score three points to open up the second half of the game. When Polo’s final draw of the sixth end was heavy, Scotland stole a point to tie the game. Scotland made a great double takeout late in the seventh end to force the U.S. to draw the button to secure a point. With Peterson’s second stone of the eighth end, the Americans con-
verted a perfect tap to position their stone on the button with two Scottish rocks behind it as backing. Team USA was able to protect the stone the rest of the way and secured the bronze medal when Scotland was unable to chip it out with the final shot of the game. “I’m really happy she made that little tick in the last end. It was great, we
are happy,” Polo said about Peterson’s shot that set up the game-winning steal. Polo, 33, made history 10 years ago as well as a member of the first U.S. team to win an Olympic medal, also bronze. Q
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USA’s duo of Joe Polo and Tabitha Peterson are the first American team to reach the podium at the World Mixed Doubles Championship aſter earning bronze in 2016.
Photo courtesy of the World Curling Federation
SA’s Tabitha Peterson and Joe Polo became a part of U.S. curl- ing history as the first American athletes to earn a medal at the World Mixed Doubles Championship when the duo defeated
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