Stoughton knocked out of Olympic curling trials
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EDMONTON – Manitoba will not have a curling representative at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver this February.
Jeff Stoughton and his crew from the Charleswood Curling Club were knocked off 11-6 by Glenn Howard in the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials ‘Roar of the Rings’ semifinal Saturday afternoon. Howard now advances to face Kevin Martin in Sunday’s final, with the winner wearing Canada’s colours in Vancouver.
“There’s a lot of work and effort to get to here and performing at our best and the guys did that,” said Stoughton, supported by third Kevin Park, second Rob Fowler and lead Steve Gould.
“Now we’ve got a couple of great Slams we’re going to play in in January in Guelph and Winnipeg and then there’s our Safeway Championship to hopefully get back to the Brier. Hopefully by February we’ll be raring to go and looking forward to trying to go to Halifax, it’s a great place to have a Brier.”
Stoughton trailed 2-1 after two ends, but the game’s decisive shot game in the third end when Howard made a long angle run-back double take out for a 4-1 lead. Stoughton would scrap back from a 6-2 deficit after sixth with deuces in the seventh and ninth to trail 7-6 after nine. As is often the case at the elite level, Stoughton forced Howard to make his last shot in the game for the win.
“I’m disappointed, no doubt,” Stoughton said. “I’m disappointed we couldn’t have been tied up coming home instead of where we were, especially after we got down early.”
This was Stoughton’s fourth visit to the Olympic trials, but he admitted it feels different than in 2005 when he lost in the final to eventual gold-medal winner Brad Gushue.
“It’s not the final,” said Stoughton. “I just think there are more things in perspective after four years. It’s not the end of the world.
"Tomorrow’s another day – I know that’s a bad quote – but back in ’05 we put so much more work and effort into it and we were expecting to win. That’s why it was more of a disappointment. Don’t get me wrong, we put a ton of work and effort into this but our expectations were that we could win this thing but it was not out of necessity.”
The men’s final goes at 2 p.m. on Sunday (TSN).
Shannon Kleibrink and Cheryl Bernard, meanwhile, meet at 7 p.m. Saturday in the women’s final and for the right to represent Canada in Vancouver.
