Huge curling drama – Japan happily collapsed

Beijing. The women’s curling championship at the Olympic Games broke records.

Great Britain, Japan and Canada were evenly tied in the fight for the last two places in the semi-finals.

To distinguish them from each other, the previous stones of the teams in the group stage matches had to be checked down to the millimeter.

Switzerland and Sweden finished the group stage in the seventh and second stage.

Behind them, there was great excitement and drama between the three teams in the remaining two places in the playoffs.

Everything had to be determined by measuring all the stones the teams played during their nine group stage matches.

Those who decide which of the teams will get the last stone, the so-called drag challenge.

Great Britain averaged 35.27 cm, Japan 36.00 cm and Canada 46.44 cm.

British netting fever

Thus, the great Canada team missed the Olympic semi-finals for the second consecutive tournament.

The Japanese girls fell to the ground in a big pile of never ending tears of joy.

– It proves how tight and even this tournament is. World Cup runner-up Russia finished 10th and last, says the Swedish captain Anna Haselburg.

It’s British curling fever in the Arena Iskuben (formerly Vattenkuben), after Great Britain has yet to win a medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

In the women’s tournament, the semi-finals are Sweden – Great Britain and Switzerland – Japan, and in the men’s tournament the semi-finals are Sweden – Canada, and Great Britain – the USA.