In the World Men's Curling Championships, which are competing for the Beijing Olympics next year, the sixth round of the qualifying league was held, and Japan lost to the Russian national team 5:10.
The total result is 2 wins and 4 losses, and the ranking is provisionally 9th.
Hokkaido Consadole, who has represented Japan in the World Men's Curling Championships in Calgary, Canada, played against the Russian national team in Round 6 of the qualifying league on the 5th.
Russia is not allowed to participate in this tournament as a country due to systematic doping problems, and the players are participating as representatives of the Russian Curling Federation.
Japan, which ranked 6th in the world ranking, struggled from the beginning to the 11th-ranked Russian national team and allowed a 1-5 lead by the 4th end.
In the 5th end, he returned 3 points and narrowed down to 1 point, but he was deprived of 2 points in the 6th end immediately after, and allowed 3 more points in the 8th end and admitted the loss when it became 5:10. It was.
With this, Japan's total results in the qualifying league will be 2 wins and 4 losses, and the ranking will be provisional and will not change to 9th place.
The Curling Men's World Championship will be a round-robin qualifying league with 14 teams, with the top 6 teams qualifying for next year's Beijing Olympics.