Canada loses quarterfinal at wheelchair mixed doubles curling worlds, out of mix for 2026 Paralympics

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Canada's Ina Forrest and Mark Ideson dropped a 7-6 determination to Japan's Aki Ogawa and Yoji Nakajima successful quarterfinal play Saturday astatine the World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship successful Stevenston, Scotland.

Ina Forrest and Mark Ideson driblet 7-6 determination to Japan successful Stevenston, Scotland

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 15, 2025 5:54 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Curling people     with azygous  curling stone  and portion  of an jock  successful  a wheelchair holding a broom.

Japan handed Canada its archetypal nonaccomplishment successful 7 games astatine the Auchenharvie Leisure Centre successful Stevenston, Scotland. (Dita Alangkara/AP/The Canadian Press)

Canada's Ina Forrest and Mark Ideson dropped a 7-6 determination to Japan's Aki Ogawa and Yoji Nakajima successful quarterfinal play Saturday astatine the World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship successful Stevenston, Scotland.

Needing 2 points to propulsion adjacent successful the eighth end, Ideson settled for a azygous erstwhile helium moved Japan's stone but his shooter rolled excessively far.

"We had a large circular robin," said Ideson. "We enactment ourselves successful a bully presumption coming into the quarterfinal. Japan had a large game. We conscionable had a mates of unfortunate outcomes."

It was the archetypal nonaccomplishment successful 7 games for Forrest, from Spallumcheen, B.C., and Ideson, from London, Ont., astatine the Auchenharvie Leisure Centre.

The effect besides near Canada retired of the premix to suffice for the eight-team mixed doubles contention astatine the 2026 Winter Paralympics successful Milan-Cortina, Italy.

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