{"id":454720,"date":"2026-02-05T04:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454720\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T04:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:20:10","slug":"successful-opening-draw-for-team-canada-in-mixed-doubles-curling-at-milano-cortina-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454720\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful opening draw for Team Canada in mixed doubles curling at Milano Cortina 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tCandice Ward\/COC <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 4, 2026\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Sharing<\/p>\n

Even a power outage wasn\u2019t going to stop Team Canada\u2019s Jocelyn Peterman<\/a> and Brett Gallant<\/a> from posting an opening-day victory on Wednesday in mixed doubles curling at Milano Cortina 2026<\/a> Olympic Winter Games.<\/p>\n

About halfway through the first end of their eventual 10-5 win over Team Czechia, some lights went out in Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium, built in 1955, halting play for several minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot unsettling at all,\u201d Peterman said of the stoppage. \u201cWe were ready to expect the unexpected. A short power (outage) and totally fine. We laughed it off and chatted about what we wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

What the married couple did was steal one in the first end thanks to two ideal draws by Peterman, a key hit and roll by Gallant, and a missed last-rock double attempt by Czechia\u2019s Julie Zelingrov\u00e1.<\/p>\n

\"\"Team Canada\u2019s Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant compete against Czechia in mixed doubles curling at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Italy on Wednesday, February 04, 2026. Photo by Candice Ward\/COC <\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal was to get the feel of the ice,\u201d Gallant said of the pair\u2019s attitude going into the game. \u201cWe wanted to make some precise draws.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peterman said she was happy to get the Games underway.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been preparing for this for a long time,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was nice to finally get out there and throw those first few rocks.\u201d<\/p>\n

A pair of misses by 19-year-old Zelingrov\u00e1 and 21-year-old teammate V\u00edt Chabi\u010dovsk\u00fd \u2013 by far the youngest team in the competition \u2014 gave Canada a steal of four in the second end and a comfortable 5-0 lead. Zelingrov\u00e1\u2019s last-rock runback attempt was inches wide and left Canada with the four counters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that second end when we got the steal, was a dream start,\u201d said Gallant. \u201cBut you can\u2019t get too comfortable in doubles. There\u2019s a lot of points to be had. They got three coming back in the third. It was okay we\u2019re still in there. Was happy to see we carried it through to the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Team Canada\u2019s Jocelyn Peterman calls a shot against Czechia in mixed doubles curling at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Italy on Wednesday, February 04, 2026. Photo by Candice Ward\/COC <\/p>\n

Czechia jumped on an early miss by 35-year-old Gallant to score three in the third end, but Canada replied with two in the fourth. After giving up a single in the fifth, Peterman and Gallant scored three in the sixth for a 10-4 margin. The 32-year-old Peterman, from Red Deer, Alta., had near perfect draw weight all game and used it again on a last-rock tap back of the lone Czechia stone in the house to give Canada the three.<\/p>\n

Czechia scored one on a measurement in the seventh and then shook hands.<\/p>\n

In the other first round games: Sweden defeated South Korea 10-3; Great Britain beat Norway 8-6; and Switzerland nipped Estonia 9-7.<\/p>\n

Defending champions Amos Mosaner and Stefania Consitantini of Italy open their title defence Thursday against South Korea.<\/p>\n

The ten teams play nine games each in the round robin with the top four countries qualifying for the semifinals on Feb. 9. The medal games will be played on Feb. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Candice Ward\/COC February 4, 2026 Even a power outage wasn\u2019t going to stop Team Canada\u2019s Jocelyn Peterman and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[109038,49,48,109039,186766,14471,186767,82,13543],"class_list":["post-454720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brett-gallant","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-curling","tag-jocelyn-peterman","tag-milano-cortina-2026","tag-mixed-curling","tag-sports","tag-team-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}