Team Canada's Ina Forrest, left, is competing in the Paralympics this month in Bejing, China.
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March 06, 2022 - 9:29 AM
Spallumcheen's Ina Forrest is at the top of her game in the 2022 Paralympics.
Typically, a “turning point” doesn’t happen when a game has barely started. But in a bizarre circumstance, that became the case for Canada’s wheelchair curlers in their afternoon, March 6, matchup with Latvia, in Bejing, China for the games.
“I’ve never seen anything like that,” said Dennis Theissen, the Canadian second, in a press release issued by Curling Canada. The team includes three-time medalist Forrest, who won gold in the Paralympics in 2010 and 2014 then added a bronze in 2018 in PyeongChang.
At the conclusion of the first end, a game assistant moved a rock that needed to be measured before it was confirmed as a second counter for Canada.
“We were pretty sure we were sitting two,” Theissen said in the press release, “but it got moved before we had a chance to measure.”
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The officials decided that because it was not the fault of either team, Canada could either take the single point, or opt to play the end from the beginning.
The final score was 10-3. The win was the third straight for Team Canada, who sits alone at 3-0 at the top of the standings. They will play two games on each of the next three days, before finishing the 10-game round-robin verses Norway on Friday morning, according to Curling Canada.
Tomorrow’s game include USA at 9:35 a.m., March 7, local time (Sunday, 8:35 p.m. ET) and Sweden at 7:35 p.m. local (Monday, 6:35 a.m. ET).
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