Two more wins are in the bank for Canada’s Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
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The Chestermere, Alta., wife-and-husband tandem, backed up by team coach Laine Peters and national coach Scott Pfeifer, improved to 3-0 in Olympic mixed doubles competition Thursday at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium by posting a pair of solid wins.
In the afternoon draw, Canada defeated Norway’s Kristin Skaslien and Magnus Nedregotten (0-3) 6-3, and then followed up with an emphatic 7-2 win over reigning Olympic and world champs Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner of Italy (2-1).
The win left Peterman and Gallant tied for top spot in the eight-team round-robin standings with Great Britain’s Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat.
“Every game’s important because if you look at the schedule for the next day and then you look at the next day, it just doesn’t get any easier,” said Gallant. “So we’re just really focusing on doing the things that help us put out our best. We’re trying to stay loose, we’re trying to have a good time out there and just focus on reading the ice and communicating lots, so yes, every win is huge here because I think there’s so many evenly ranked teams. I think it’s going to be kind of a dogfight, especially getting towards the playoffs — it’s going to be very difficult.”
Constantini and Mosaner have won every game they’ve played together — at the 2022 Winter Olympics and the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Championship, where they defeated Peterman and Gallant in the playoffs.
But that streak came to an end Thursday evening in front of a loud, partisan crowd in Cortina, the hometown of Constantini.
“It was fun,” said Peterman. “We were ready for (crowd noise) and it was fun to hear all of them. It was also fun to hear our fans cheering really loud on the first end and kind of quiet them down a little bit, too. It’s nice to have that noise in there and have that kind of energy. Mixed doubles is fun, and it’s fun to kind of hear the crowd get involved with it. Every shot is so important and it’s nice to hear everyone involved.”
The crowd was silenced early, though. Constantini’s last-rock promotion of her team’s stone set up a gift-wrapped short angle-raise takeout to score five for Peterman, who made no mistake.
From there, Canada never gave the Italians a sniff at a big end, and the Italians conceded after six when Constantini rolled out on an open hit for a single to blank the end.
“I’m just proud of the way we came out of the gates with five really good shots in the first end and got rewarded with a couple of errors from them and got to put five on the board,” said Gallant. “So it was just a really good start but we kept it going the whole game, so I’m really happy.”
In the earlier game, Peterman and Gallant were able to grind out the win on the strength of a pair of stolen points, and a wonderful shot from Peterman to produce the game’s only deuce.
In the first end with Norway holding the hammer, Gallant made a wonderful hit-and-roll with his final shot to get Canada out a jam, and it eventually resulted in the first steal.
After forcing Norway to a single in the second, it was Peterman’s turn to make a game-turning shot. With Norway sitting two in the four-foot, Peterman raised a Norwegian stone in the top 12-foot to remove the two counters along with the raised stone, and leave Canada sitting a stunning two.
Peterman made another double takeout in the fifth that led to another steal and essentially nailed down the victory.
“It wasn’t maybe our highest statistic game but we made a lot of the right shots at the right time,” said Gallant. “That shot Jocelyn made in the third end, that was a four-point swing and that was a key shot. We made the draws when we were kind of in trouble and we had to get out of it. Gritty win and there are going to be a few more of those, I think, this week.”
Team Canada is on the ice just once on Friday, a 4:05 a.m. (all times Eastern) showdown with Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin of the United States (2-0).
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