The Nice Britain wheelchair curling blended 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 may not qualify for the knockout stage.
And though Nice Britain performed properly within the first six ends towards 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 section, began properly and led 3-0 after the opening finish.
The British rink had been degree 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 degree, GB wanted to stay robust 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 towards Latvia earlier than their ultimate round-robin recreation towards Norway on Thursday.
