Chinese women’s curling team ranks seventh, Britain, Japan advance to semifinals
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) — The women’s curling round-robin competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics ended on the afternoon of the 17th. Canada and the United Kingdom, who had won 4 wins with the Chinese team, defeated their respective opponents, making China’s last hope of advancing to the semi-finals lost. . The top four teams from Switzerland, Sweden, England and Japan advance to the semi-finals. The Chinese team has 4 wins and 5 losses, ranking seventh.
The day before, Switzerland and Sweden had already secured their places in the semi-finals, while China, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and Canada all retained their hopes of advancing to the semi-finals. Among them, the condition for the Chinese team to advance to the semi-finals is that the Canadian team, the British team, and the South Korean team all lost in the round-robin match on the 17th.
In the afternoon game, the British team defeated the Russian Olympic Committee team 9:4, the Canadian team defeated the Denmark team 10:4, the Japanese team lost to the Swiss team 4:8, and the South Korean team lost to the Sweden team 4:8. The British team, the Canadian team, and the Japanese team have the same record of 5 wins and 4 losses, and the relationship between the wins and losses is the same. In the end, the British team and the Japanese team won because of the team’s lead in the pot-throwing competition and advanced to the semi-finals.
The teams ranked fifth to tenth in the round robin are: Canada (5-4), United States (4-5), China (4-5), South Korea (4-5), Denmark (2 wins and 7 losses), the Russian Olympic Committee (1 wins and 8 losses).
According to the schedule, the semi-finals will be played on the evening of the 18th, with the Swiss team playing against the Japanese team and the Swedish team against the British team.