On February 5, Beijing time, in the mixed doubles curling round robin round robin tournament of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese combination Of Fan Suyuan / Ling Zhi lost 6-9 to the Norwegian combination of Skarslien / Neder Leggten, suffering four consecutive defeats. In this Winter Olympic round robin, Fan Suyuan/Ling Zhi won the first two consecutive games against Switzerland and Australia, but since then they have lost to Sweden, Canada and the United States.
Fan Suyuan/Ling Zhi lost to the United States 5-7 in the afternoon match, and after that match, curling world champion Yue Qingshuang said that the Chinese team lacked experience in the competition and lost on the mentality. Yue Qingshuang wrote on his personal social media: "We should lose in mentality, we still have a chance to win." In fact, the technology is not much worse than the American team, or lack of competition experience. ”
In the evening match against Norway, in the first half of the game, Norway stole a point in the third and fourth innings in a row, taking a 4-1 lead. In the second half, both sides had ups and downs, Fan Suyuan/Ling Zhi scored two points in the fifth set, Norway scored five points in the sixth set, Fan Suyuan/Ling Zhi scored three points in the seventh set, and the Chinese combination failed to achieve a counterattack in the eighth set, and finally lost 6-9, suffering four consecutive defeats.
The two said after the game that tomorrow is a challenge for us, and after today, tomorrow we will have an early game and then an afternoon game. Fan Suyuan said that these strong teams are worth learning from us, they are indeed better than us, but we can not lose our confidence, but also to maintain their technical ability, pay attention to every ball.
The Current Record of the Chinese team is 2 wins and 4 losses, and it is tied for seventh place with the Czech Republic and Switzerland. There are two more games in the round robin, the British combination and the Italian combination, and the remaining two games are not easy to play. But as they say: tomorrow will be a challenge. Bless Fan Suyuan / Ling Zhi, maintain their technical ability, work hard, pass one by one, and still have hope for the semi-finals, come on!
In addition, Italy beat The United Kingdom 7-5 to win six straight and take the first place. Italy is the dark horse of this competition, undefeated, while The United Kingdom is the 2021 Mixed Doubles World Championships champion. In the end, the big dark horse defeated the world champion! Canada beat the United States 7-2 and Switzerland 11-3 against the Czech Republic.