Chinese women's ice skating did not qualify for the top 8, and its excellent performance can be expected in the future

On the evening of the 8th, the women's ice hockey group stage of the Beijing Winter Olympics ended, and the Chinese team also ended the journey of the Winter Olympics. In the final battle of Group B, Sweden defeated Denmark 2-1 in regular time, "squeezed out" the Chinese team by virtue of the win-loss relationship, and advanced to the top 8 with Japan and the Czech Republic. Chinese women's ice did not qualify for the group.

For the Danish, Swedish and Chinese teams, this is a fateful "life and death battle". According to the format, the top three teams in Group B advance to the quarterfinals. After the match on the 7th, the Chinese team, which ranked third in the group, scored 5 points, Sweden and Denmark scored 3 points, and the Chinese team defeated Denmark and lost to Sweden in the group stage. According to the rules of points out of ice hockey matches, only Denmark can qualify if it defeats Sweden in extra time in the final match, and the rest of the time will be Denmark or Sweden. It can be said that the only theoretical possibility of Chinese female ice out of the line is possible.

The match started at 21:10 and Sweden scored in 3:02 to take a 1-0 lead. In the first quarter alone, sweden was awarded four two-minute games, and the intensity of the game was evident. In the second quarter, a total of five people from both sides were sentenced to play two minutes. In the 14:04s of the quarter, Norway scored an equaliser. But less than two minutes later, Sweden was once again leading by color.

In the third quarter, neither side was able to score again for a longer period of time. Norway's substitution of the goalkeeper in the final moments failed in a big attack, and Sweden seized the opportunity to score another point and beat the opponent 2-1, thus catching the "last train" to reach the top 8. The Chinese team stopped in the group stage.

However, the Chinese women's ice skaters who participated in the host's "wild card" showed a new mental outlook in this Winter Olympics. In the first three matches, the team won 1 and lost 2, defeating Norway and the group's strongest opponent, the world's sixth-ranked Japanese team, and the losing to the Czech Republic did not fall behind. Although the fourth match was drawn in the conventional time to qualify, it was reversed by the Swedish team 1-2, putting the initiative in the hands of others, and eventually failed to qualify. But as Captain Yu Baiwei said, the girls have proved with their actions that this is a new and expected Chinese female ice, and they can do better.