In the mixed team curling competition at the Gangwon Youth Olympic Games, Japan passed the preliminaries in 3rd place, but lost 3-8 to Denmark in the semi-finals, failing to win a medal in this event for the second consecutive tournament. did.
Mixed team curling is an eight-end competition in which teams of four, two men and two women, compete for victory and defeat.Japan won the silver medal in the previous tournament.
Japan finished in 3rd place with 5 wins and 2 losses in the 8-team round-robin preliminary round, and will play Denmark for a place in the semi-finals, with 15-year-old Kaito Fujii, who served as the flag bearer at the opening ceremony, and 16-year-old The four of us participated: Maruzen Sakizuki, 17-year-old Kouhei Sato, and 17-year-old Himari Ichiyama.
Japan was given a two-point lead in the first end, and then scored one point each in the second and third ends when they had an advantage, leading to a difficult first-half lead of 1-4.
In the 5th end, they lost 3 more points, and in the 6th end, Fujii made a double takeout with his last throw, knocking out 2 of his opponent's stones near the center of the house, giving him 2 points back. I showed my determination.
However, in the next end, Japan lost one point to their opponent, and with a five-point difference, Japan admitted defeat and missed out on advancing to the semi-finals, failing to win a medal for the second consecutive tournament.
After the match, Fujii said, ``We weren't able to play well from the beginning, and we conceded a lot of goals.I want to make use of this once-in-a-lifetime experience of playing against so many countries in the future.'' I was talking.