China News Service, Beijing, February 14 (Reporter Chen Hang) On the morning of the 14th, in the women's curling round-robin competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team lost 2:10 to the previous third runner-up Japanese team and missed three consecutive victories.
The current record is 2 wins and 4 losses, ranking eighth.
In the previous two games, the Chinese women's curling team changed, with Wang Rui, who had participated in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, as fourth base, and her state improved significantly, defeating the PyeongChang Winter Olympics champion Sweden in succession and the PyeongChang Winter Olympics runner-up South Korea. team.
In this round of competition, the Chinese team stole one point in the second game, the Japanese team scored 3 points in the third game, and opened the gap, and the Chinese team lost 3 points in the fifth game, with a score of 1:7 behind the Japanese team.
In the second half, the Chinese team struggled to catch up and scored a point, but still trailed the Japanese team by 2:10 in the eighth game. After confirming that the situation could not be reversed, the Chinese team had no choice but to admit defeat in advance.
Wang Rui admitted, "For us, we play less in international competitions." In the face of today's large and straight arc, they did not combine the strength of point and line very well, and the speed of adjustment was relatively slower than that of the Japanese team. Some.
On the afternoon of February 15, the Chinese team will face the Russian Olympic Committee team.
Wang Rui said that when he goes back, he will summarize today's ice conditions, be himself in the next game, and play every ball well.
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