From news on athletes, tickets, facilities and the border, Adventure writer Craig Hill takes you inside the ramp up to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Just 175 miles north of Tacoma, the Vancouver, B.C., games will likely be the closest the Olympics ever come to the South Sound region.
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Washington might get a curler in the Olympics after all.
Seattle’s Colin Huffman was added to Tyler George’s Minnesota rink as their fifth player. A curling team has four players, so Huffman will be the reserve. Huffman played on Jason Larway’s accomplished Seattle team this season, but the team, which made the playoffs at nationals the last two seasons, just missed qualifying for the Olympic trials.
George’s team went 8-1 in pool play and is the top seed in the playoffs that start today.
The Olympic dreams of Washington’s top curling teams are officially dead after a disappointing morning at the U.S. Curling Trials in Broomfield, Colo.
Both Mark Johnson and Greg Romaniuk’s Seattle-based teams lost their matches Thursday morning that would have put them in a tiebreaker to make the playoffs.
Romaniuk took an early 4-2 lead against Tyler George’s Minnesota team but failed to scored in the final six ends and lost 8-4.
Johnson’s loss was even more heartbreaking. His team led by a point entering the 10th and final end but Todd Birr’s Minnesota team scored twice to steal a 7-6 win.
Johnson and Romaniuk finished pool play with 4-5 records.
George won pool play with an 8-1 record and is in the playoffs Friday and Saturday with Birr (6-3), John Shuster’s Minnesota team (6-3) and Craig Brown’s Wisconsin team (5-4).
The tournament winner earns a spot in the 2010 Olympics.
Cristin Clark’s Seattle team was eliminated from the women’s tournament Wednesday.
