Korea skip Kim Eun-jung (left) and Japan skip Satsuki Fujisawa of Japan stand side by side at the house during the women’s curling league match 6th match between Korea and Japan at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics held at the National Aquatic Center in Beijing, China on the followingnoon of the 14th. In this match, Korea defeated Japan 10-5. yunhap news
The Korean women’s curling team defeated Japan. The possibility of advancing to the quarterfinals has been inflated once more.
Korea’s women’s national curling team Kim (Kim Eun-jung, Kim Kyung-ae, Kim Seon-young, Kim Young-mi, Kim Cho-hee) defeated Japan 10-5 in the sixth round of the women’s full league tournament held at the National Aquatic Center in Beijing, China on the 14th.
Korea, which had lost 2–3 to the United States 6–8 this morning, recorded 3–3 with a victory over Japan. In this tournament, 10 countries play a full league, and the top 4 countries play a semifinal tournament to determine the rankings.
Switzerland ranked first with 5 wins and 1 loss, while the United States, Japan and Sweden tied for second place with 4 wins and 2 losses.
Korea, who took a day off on the 15th, will face Switzerland on the morning of the 16th and Denmark in the followingnoon on the 16th. Until the final day of the full league, once morest Sweden on the 17th, they need to win two or more in the remaining three games to continue their chances of the quarterfinals.
With this victory, Korea reproached the pain of losing to Japan 4-8 and 5-8 in the preliminary and final rounds of the Olympic Qualification Championships held in the Netherlands in December last year.
At the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, the previous Olympic Games, Japan won the full league and Korea won the semifinals, recording 1 win and 1 loss. In the final result, Korea won the silver medal and Japan won the bronze medal.
Korea, who turned 4-2 with Kim Young-mi’s performance, such as striking 3 opponent stones at once in the 3rd end, fled to 5-2, and then ran 2 runs to Japan in the 5th end and was chased 5-4.
However, in the 6th end, Japan’s takeout attempt hit our stone and the direction was changed, and Korea took the lead 7-4, and in the 7th end, they added one point to make 8-4 to win.
In the 9th end, Korea added 2 points to make it 10-5, Japan gave up the remaining 10 ends and accepted defeat.
If they had lost to Japan that day, the Korean women’s curling, who was in danger of making it to the quarterfinals, was in danger of reaching the semifinals.
