When they initially planned their extended road trip, one that began in Kusadasi, Turkey, on May 19 and included scheduled stops in the Czech Republic, Latvia, and Italy, they did so under the assumption they’d qualify for World Championships without needing an inordinately lucky break. But in Kusadasi, they reserved perhaps their worst performance as a team for the worst possible time, failing to break pool for the first time since the Gstaad Major in 2019, an event that also had dire implications for their Olympic aspirations. When the math was added up, Bourne and Crabb realized what had just happened in Kusadasi: They pushed out a 480-point finish and replaced it with one worth 300.
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