February 16, Beijing time, the 12th match day of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Curling project today ushered in the penultimate match day, in today's end of the game, the Chinese men's and women's teams have won, of which the men's team 6-5 narrowly beat Switzerland, whether they can qualify need to wait for the results of tomorrow's other teams, the women's team in the morning 8-4 victory over the United Kingdom, although it has been determined that there is no chance to advance to the final four, but the last game against the strong opponent Canada, or to strive to leave a satisfactory ending at home.
At the beginning of the game, the Chinese team took the lead in getting the mobile phone meeting, the first innings was as simple as ever, the Chinese team got a point first, the second game, maybe Canada had determined the top four places early, they handled the situation very casually, the Chinese team seized this point, in the second set of stable layout, stole two points first. But in the next two innings, the Canadian team woke up like a dream, showing a strong hover, hitting ability, and pulling back three consecutive points. In the fifth set, the Chinese team stabilized the situation, and the border area layout caused great trouble to the Canadian team, which was powerless to resolve, and the Chinese team took two more points!
At the beginning of the second half, the sixth inning, the Chinese team made a series of mistakes, the Canadian layout was very successful, the Chinese team's fourth base Wang Rui faced an extremely difficult situation, the last pot failed to stop the loss, the Canadian fourth base was stable and hanging, and won five points! The Chinese team went from 5-3 to 5-8 in an instant, and in the seventh set, the Chinese team quickly adjusted, not giving the Canadian team an easy chance to stand, and successfully pulled back two points. In the eighth inning, the Canadian layout completed a two-point containment in front of the fourth base, and in the moment of crisis, Wang Rui stepped forward again and played a stroke of the double fly, instantly turning the situation around, and the Chinese team stole a point from the backhand, and the score was 8-8 equalized!
In the ninth inning, canada tried to simplify the situation to keep the backhand to the last set 0-0, but the Chinese team also responded appropriately, and Wang Rui made another contribution to the last pot of throws, forcing Canada to get only one point. In the last inning of regular time, the Chinese team held the backhand advantage, Canada's defensive quality was very high, the third base Dong Ziqi played a key double fly, this innings both sides did not make mistakes, the Chinese team got a point, and the two sides entered the overtime 9-9. In the overtime game, the Chinese team achieved the extreme of the first hand, Canada's last pot before the two pots in the center of the circle caused the containment, Canada was forced to call out a timeout, and then the fourth base attempt to difficult biography double fly failure, the Chinese team stole two points, 11-9 narrowly defeated Canada.
After this game, the Chinese team has ended its journey to the Winter Olympics, on the whole, this Chinese women's curling team in addition to Wang Rui has qualified pressure resistance, stability and competition experience, whether it is the second and third base and the performance of Han Yu, or the substitute up to Jiang Xindi are very lack of experience in the competition, as soon as they come up to participate in the winter Olympics such a top event is indeed some difficulties, they have a high enough strength ceiling, the mentality is also very optimistic, but need enough time to grow.