On the closing day of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the women's curling team event final ended perfectly, and the British team defeated the Japanese team 10-3 to successfully win the cup, and also won the first gold of the Winter Olympics for the United Kingdom.
It is worth mentioning that in this Winter Olympics, the British men's and women's curling teams both reached the final, the men's curling team lost to Sweden in extra time after 11 rounds of hard fighting; the women's curling team controlled the situation throughout the whole process, with a 10-3 disparity, forcing the Japanese team to throw the pot in advance and admit defeat.
The reason why the British team performed so eye-catching is inseparable from the team's excellent throwing and hitting ability, both men and women have extremely strong hitting ability, the British team has countless beautiful hits at third base, and the key moments of the fourth base are also not soft, such a team, any team to defeat it, it is not easy.
Obviously, judging from the performance of the Japanese team in the final, it is far from shaking the British team, but the Chinese team has educated the British team in the round-robin stage, and in that game, the Chinese team has just experienced the most painful two consecutive defeats in the round robin, one of which is a 2-10 loss to the British team's final opponent Japan. In two consecutive games, the Chinese team has had big problems in judging the dot line.
Against the British team, the lineup of the Chinese team has become: jiang Xindi at first base, Zhang Lijun at second base, Dong Ziqi at third base, and Wang Rui at fourth base, continuing the lineup when the last 5-11 fiasco defeated the Russian Olympic Committee, at this time, the Chinese team has basically advanced to the top 4 and is hopeless, but whether it can be quickly adjusted is of great significance to the Chinese team, and it is also a rare training opportunity for the Chinese team.
Fortunately, the Chinese team has shown sophistication and courage that has never been reflected in previous matches, and the main performance is that it is no longer panicked like before, no longer in a hurry, can not get a big score, patience and opponents are consumed, and this is also the usual trick of the British men's and women's curling teams.
The Chinese team in that game "to the other way, but also to the other body", the first 8 games and the opponent 4-4 draw, the key 9th innings to use the killer skill, a single game to get 3 points of the big point, in one fell swoop to lay the game's victory and defeat, this victory, but also let the British team very helpless, did not expect the Chinese team to play so well.
Unfortunately, the state of the Chinese team came too late, the last battle, the Chinese team also educated the Canadian team, but the pit dug in the front, has been unable to fill, can only watch their own defeat will successfully break into the top 4, until the final, in fact, another team that broke into the top 4, the British team in the semi-finals of the opponent Sweden, was also educated by the Chinese team in the round robin.
But the cruelty of curling lies in this, even if a team performs well in a certain game, there is not enough stability, it is difficult to go further, the reason why the British team can laugh at the rivers and lakes, the key lies in their tactical literacy and rich game experience, bringing them enough stability, the Chinese team in the British team at the same time to congratulate, but also to deeply believe, go out more, participate in more games, improve themselves, one day, in order to make a comeback.