By Hritika Sharma
BEIJING (Reuters) – Reigning champions United States knocked off world primary aspect Britain within the males’s curling on the Nationwide Aquatics Centre on Friday whereas favourites Sweden stormed to the highest of the standings with an ideal begin to their round-robin marketing campaign.
The British rink, led by Bruce Mouat, fought again from an early 5-2 deficit however the Individuals took the decisive lead in a scientific penultimate finish to emerge 9-7 winners.
“John (Shuster, U.S. skip) and his crew have gotten a number of expertise right here. They know how you can win video games,” Mouat stated. “You possibly can’t give them any freebies and that’s what we have been doing at this time.”
World champions Sweden eased to a 9-3 win over Italy and are prime of the round-robin standings, having received all three of their video games thus far. The Italians conceded with two ends remaining after Swedish skip Niklas Edin made an open draw for 3.
“We felt no stress in that second,” Edin stated. “I really feel thus far that it’s been a just about good begin… If we don’t make any large errors the sport is mainly already over.
“So we’re simply enjoying the scoreboard and never making an attempt to lose our heads on the market, simply making an attempt to be exact.”
Switzerland performed out a reasonably defensive 6-3 victory over the Russian Olympic Committee, grabbing three factors within the eighth finish after each groups had blanked the earlier two.
China claimed their first win of the marketing campaign after carrying a single-point lead into the final finish, when Denmark skip Mikkel Krause by chance threw his last draw by way of the home to depart the hosts with an open hit to choose up a 5-4 victory.
Groups will play 9 matches within the round-robin stage, which continues afterward Friday, with the highest 4 advancing to the semi-finals subsequent week.
The ladies’s group stage additionally continues later within the day, with Pyeongchang 2018 runners-up South Korea and bronze medallists Japan in motion in opposition to Canada and Britain.
(Reporting by Hritika Sharma; modifying by Richard Pullin)
Supply: KFGO
