Cristin Clark’s curling team is all but eliminated for the chance to make the 2010 Olympics. Clark’s team just lost for the second time today – 10-3 to Aileen Sormunen’s Minnesota team – and is now 2-5 with two matches remaining in pool play.
Clark is now eliminated from the tournament playoffs.
Greg Romaniuk and Mark Johnson, skips of Seattle’s two teams at U.S. Olympic trials, both won their matches today.
Romaniuk defeated Christopher Plys’ Minnesota team 5-4.
Johnson defeated Mike Farbelow’s Minnesota team 4-3.
Both teams are 3-3 and in position to make the playoff that will determine the U.S. representative in the 2010 Olympics.
From the Associated Press:
…Kikkan Randall sprinted frenetically through the snowfall, stretching her ski across the finish line and breaking new ground for U.S. skiing.
Randall held off Finland’s Pirjo Muranen in a photo finish Tuesday to take silver in the sprint at the Nordic skiing world championships, becoming the first American woman to win a world or Olympic medal in cross-country skiing.
Randall, of Anchorage, Alaska, had never had a top-10 finish in four previous worlds. She led for most of the 1.3-kilometer final but was overtaken by Italy’s Arianna Follis in the last turn before
Cristin Clark of Lynnwood and her Seattle-based curling let and two-point lead slip away and lost a pivotal match today at the U.S. Olympic Curling Trials.
Clark’s team lost 11-8 to Erika Brown’s Minnesota team.
Clark is now 2-4 in pool play and has almost no room for error in her final three matches. Clark is two games behind the pace to make the playoff that will determine the spot in the 2010 Olympics.
After losing three matches in a row, Mark Johnson’s team rebounded with a decisive 10-7 victory of Craig Disher’s North Dakota team tonight.
For the second night in a row Greg Romaniuk went to extra ends in his team’s night match. But this time Romaniuk prevailed with a 10-8 win over Mike Farbelow’s Minnesota team.
Johnson and Romaniuk are 2-3 in pool play.
Cristin Clark’s team scored two points in the 10th end to complete a come-from-behind victory over Gillian Gervais’ North Dakota team Monday night at the U.S. Curling Olympic Trials.
Clark’s 7-6 win was her team’s second today improving its record to 2-3 in pool play. They are one game out of position to make the playoff that will determine which team goes to the 2010 Olympics.
Local curling teams skipped by Greg Romaniuk and Mark Johnson lost again today at the Olympic Trials.
Romaniuk lost 8-5 to tournament leader Todd Birr of Minnesota. Johnson lost 5-4 to John Shuster’s Minnesota team.
Romaniuk and Johnson are both 1-3 in pool play and play again tonight. The top four teams in the 10-team field make the playoff to determine the 2010 Olympic participant.
Cristin Clark got her first win of the Olympic Curling Trials this morning with an 8-7 win in extra ends against Charrissa Lin of Connecticut.
Clark is now 1-3 in pool play with another match this afternoon.