The 9th round robin round robin of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics China team and the world's strongest team Canada launched a thrilling battle, in the first 7 sets of the two sides of the balance of strength to 6-6 situation, the Chinese team in the 8th set of the first hand control points unfavorable, was cut by Canada in one fell swoop 3 points, the chinese team that opened the score gap Despite stubbornly chasing points, still lost 8-10 to the opponent, after 7 games 2 wins and 5 losses bid farewell to the semi-final competition of the Winter Olympics in advance.
The Canadian men's team is the world's top team in men's curling, and has won the World Championships and Olympic Games many times, and there is still a big gap between the Chinese team and the opponent. In the first set that started first, Canada threw the pot first, controlled the points against the Chinese team extremely successfully, adopted a simple clean-up tactic, did not give the Chinese men's team any chance to get a high score, and the Chinese team scored the last goal to take a 1-0 lead. In the second set, the Canadian backhand threw the pot, the Chinese men's team did not do a good job in the process of cleaning up the tactics, several mistakes led to poor control of points, and finally the Canadian backhand got 2 points to overtake the score. In the 3rd set, Canada made a mistake in the first hand, and the Chinese team seized on the opponent's mistake, successfully scored 2 points, and once again won 3-2 to win the score.
In the 4th inning, China's first two bases did well, forming a 2-point tie, and there was hope of stealing points at the end, but unfortunately, the third baseman Zou Qiang cleaned up the opponent's position and deviated, and a mistake was caught by the opponent and fell behind the opponent again 3-4. In the 5th game, the situation of the Chinese team was very favorable, there were multiple scoring pots in the base camp, and even the possibility of taking 3 points, but unfortunately, the last shot Ma Xiuyue threw the pot failed, only 2 points into the account, the Chinese team led 5-4 at halftime.
In the 6th inning, the Chinese team was not very successful in controlling the score, and Canada took a 6-5 lead after scoring two more points. In the 7th inning, the scoring situation of the two teams was not too good, and the Chinese team that threw the pot in the backhand deliberately gave up this inning and wanted to continue the backhand in the 8th inning, but unfortunately, the last shot of the fourth baseman Ma Xiuyue made the Chinese team's no point into 1 point, and the two sides once again played 6-6.
The 8th inning was the turning point between the two sides, the third baseMan Zou Qiang chose the second shot to directly hit the opponent pot, but unfortunately there was a mistake, Canada continued to stand, resulting in the Chinese team's fourth base Ma Xiuyue's second shot to choose to play double flying is too difficult, after the direct mistake Canada easily rotated the pot into the camp to win 3 points, 9-6 also completely broke the previous 7 innings of the balance, Canada laid the winning game. In the 9th set, the Chinese team had to tie the score to have a chance to win, but they failed to seize the opportunity of 3 points with the advantage of the backhand, and only 2 points were scored, continuing to fall behind 8-9. In the final 10th inning, Canada only needed 1 point to kill the Chinese team, the last goal of the Canadian fourth base Gu Shu hit the Chinese yellow pot and successfully scored 1 point, 10-8 to win the 5th win of the Winter Olympics, basically one foot stepped into the top four doors, and the Chinese team was 2 wins and 5 losses in advance of the semi-finals.
Looking at the games before the Winter Olympics, the Chinese curling team has a relatively low success rate in the third and fourth bases, especially the fourth base does not have the absolute strength of a fixed pitch, and often has a mistake in the pitching deviation at a critical moment, giving the opponent a fatal chance, if it is not the identity of the host, I am afraid that the Chinese male and female curling teams want to participate in the Winter Olympics.