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The 18-year-old Yellowknife speed skater will be on the outside looking in for the World Junior Short Track Championships in Poland this coming March after narrowly missing out on a spot late last month in Sherbrooke, Que. ThatSA国际影视传媒檚 where the Canadian Junior Short Track Championships took place and the top three in both the menSA国际影视传媒檚 and womenSA国际影视传媒檚 divisions would earn a plane ticket across the Atlantic.

Acorn would finish fourth overall with a total of 12,800 points. Each of her races SA国际影视传媒� 500-metre, 1,000-metre and 1,500-metre SA国际影视传媒� had point totals attached to them with as many as 10,000 available for the winner of each one. The final standings were determined by taking the two best results of each skater and adding them together.

Acorn said it was a bittersweet time in the days following the meet.

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Acorn finished third in both the 1,500 and 1,000-metre events, each one worth 6,400 points. The only problem was her 500-metre race, where she ended up fifth for 4,096 points. The three skaters ahead of her all finished either first or second in the same races, giving them more points.

She said she could have sat back and picked apart each race to see where it all went wrong but sheSA国际影视传媒檚 not one to cry over spilled milk.

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As it stands, Acorn is the first alternate should either of the ladies on the team right now not be able to make the trip for any reason whatsoever but she said itSA国际影视传媒檚 a longshot at this point.

And if you thought the gut-punch of missing out on Poland was bad, Acorn will now not be going to Switzerland for the Winter Universiade, either. She received an e-mail earlier this week informing her that because of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, Switzerland has closed its borders and the event had been outright cancelled.

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With those plans scuttled, Acorn said the focus for her now is to re-focus on the remainder of the season with her teammates.

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