"Ugly Duckling" mutation "White Swan" - how the Chinese curling women's team won the defending championship

Live bar February 13 news on the debut of the danish team with less than their own strength on paper, and successive defeats to Switzerland and the United States, the Chinese curling women's team playing at home suffered a cold start to the winter Olympics three consecutive defeats that were not expected before the game! On the evening of February 12, the fourth game will be against Sweden, the gold medalist of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, and losing seems to be a matter of probability.

Compared with the world's top curling teams, the Chinese women's team with an average age of less than 24 years old can be described as the "army of little sisters". However, it is precisely because they are young that they have little concern in their thinking and dare to act boldly.

That night, the Chinese team's lineup was a surprise, han Yu, who was the captain of the fourth base in the first three games, adjusted to third base, and wang Rui, the original third baseman, served as the "key lady" who won the final blow.

In such a change of formation, the first consideration is that "post-00s" Han Yu debuted on the world's top sports stage of the Winter Olympics, and it is difficult to pick up the burden when encountering difficulties, after all, she is the youngest captain in the Olympic curling arena. Second, considering that Wang Rui was the most stable player in the whole team in the first three games. She is the most experienced "veteran" in the team, one of the only two players in the team with Winter Olympic experience, and has also won the runner-up in the World Mixed Doubles Championships, which can be called "DingHaiShen Needle".

Sure enough, the sudden change of the Chinese team disrupted the Swedish team's deployment. Han Yu was clearly lightly armed and played more than steadily on third base, while Wang Rui played the role of "key lady" without mercy, and the Chinese team scored 3 points in the second set, and then maintained the advantage to end the first half with a 6-2 lead. The experienced Sweden equalised in the seventh inning. In the crucial eighth set, Wang Rui made a precise last shot to help the Chinese team get 2 points. In the ninth set, the Chinese team seized on the opponent's mistake and stole 1 point. Sweden was powerless to turn away before the final shot of the tenth inning and conceded defeat.

In the curling arena, after the Italian mixed doubles upset, there was a second big upset! This unpopular is made by the Chinese women's team.

Wang Rui said after the game that this game was not affected by the previous losing streak, and the four players played well and connected in place. When the other side chased the points, the rhythm of the game was controlled, which was the reason why the Chinese team was upset.

The Chinese women's team, which is looking forward to the first appearance, in the next competition, riding on the east wind of defeating the Olympic champion, dares to fight and fight, and spells out a new world of its own.

(Beijing Winter Olympics official website)