The Nice Britain wheelchair curling combined group’s disappointing marketing campaign on the Milan-Cortina Winter Paralympics continued with a 9-4 defeat by China.
The GB group’s slim hopes of a semi-final place had disappeared on Tuesday when their loss to Italy, mixed with China’s victory over Latvia meant they might not qualify for the knockout stage.
And though Nice Britain performed nicely within the first six ends in opposition to the two-time defending champions, a dreadful seventh finish which noticed China steal three introduced an early finish to proceedings and marked a sixth defeat in seven matches.
China, who’ve only one loss within the round-robin part, began nicely and led 3-0 after the opening finish.
The British rink had been stage after three ends after which some good play restricted China to only one within the subsequent.
Stewart Pimblett’s correct shot levelled the match once more within the fifth finish however though GB had an opportunity to steal within the subsequent, they had been unable to execute and China edged 6-4 forward.
With the benefit of the final stone within the seventh finish and needing two to attract stage, GB wanted to stay sturdy however some shot-making and judgement errors enabled their opponents to steal and safe the win.
They are going to be in motion once more on Wednesday at 18:05 in opposition to Latvia earlier than their ultimate round-robin recreation in opposition to Norway on Thursday.
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