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The 2020 world curling championships have gone from indefinitely postponed to outright cancelled because of the pandemic.

That means whatever hope Manitoba’s Kerri Einarson held to chase her first world title as Canadian champ are dashed.

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“I wasn’t really trying to get my hopes up about it,” Einarson said from her home in Gimli on Wednesday. “If you get your hopes up and then nothing ends up happening, it would just be devastating again.”

The women’s worlds were originally scheduled to begin in Prince George, B.C., in mid-March, but were called off with just a few days’ notice.

Organizers had raised the possibility of rescheduling the women’s, men’s and mixed-doubles events at one location in the fall, but that’s off the table.

Einarson, Val Sweeting and Briane Meilleur were to make their worlds debut. Along with teammate Shannon Birchard, the foursome won the national championship in Moose Jaw in February.