Mixed doubles curling takeaways: Snoop Dogg helps U.S. take down Canada
Mixed doubles curling takeaways: Snoop Dogg helps U.S. take down Canada
https://www.sportsnet.ca/curling/article/mixed-doubles-curling-takeaways-snoop-dogg-helps-u-s-take-down-canada/
Publish Date: 2026-02-06 12:39:00
Canada’s chance of going undefeated in mixed doubles curling has come to an end at Milano Cortina 2026.
The husband-and-wife duo of Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant dropped their first match of the competition against Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin of the U.S. 7-5 in their lone action on Friday at the Olympics.
The seventh end was the difference in the match as Peterman was heavy on a freeze attempt and left an open hit for Thiesse to score three, giving the U.S. a 7-4 lead.
Despite the loss, Canada is still 3-1 in the event so far, sitting in third place with four of its next five games against teams with worse records.
Meanwhile, after beating Canada, the U.S. went on to crush Czechia 8-1 and is now 4-0 to start the week.
The Americans fed off the strong U.S. crowd against Canada, with a certain celebrity leading the way.
Snoop Dogg — a notoriously huge fan of the Olympics — was in attendance for the big win, but it wasn’t a shock to Thiesse and Dropkin.
“The (coaches) wanted to make sure we knew so we could be prepared and not have it be a surprise,” Dropkin said in a post-game interview with The Athletic’s Zack Pierce.
Beforehand, the U.S. curling team gave Snoop his own jacket that read “Coach Snoop” on the back, something Thiesse noticed during the match.
“Just so cool to be able to meet him and to have him there, supporting us,” Thiesse told Pierce.
Here’s how the rest of the results looked from Friday’s action:
Great Britain 7, Sweden 4
Italy 12, Switzerland 4
U.S. 7, Canada 5
U.S. 8, Czechia 1
Italy 7, Estonia 4
Great Britain 8, Korea 2
Norway 9, Sweden 0
What went wrong for Canada
Peterman and Gallant will probably focus on the seventh end being the reason they lost this game, and rightly so, as if Peterman made the freeze perfect, the U.S. would’ve only been able to score at best two, but probably only one.
However, it was really something that was building up over the entire match that led to that moment…
