Women's curling at Beijing 2022 Olympics Day 2 round-up: Switzerland and United States pick up wins, Canada falls to Japan

World champions Switzerland and the United States continue their unbeaten runs in the women’s curling competition at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics after the conclusion of play on Friday (11 February).

Up 3-1 at the end of the fourth, things seemed to be going positively for Swiss skip Silvana Tirinzoni and her team. However, a one-point end succeeded by a two-point steal in the sixth end allowed ROC take the lead 4-3.

On the attack, Switzerland responded with two of their own before picking up a game-changing three point steal in the eighth. A critical miss by ROC skip Alina Kovaleva, meant Switzerland, lying three, were able to soar ahead 8-4.

Undeterred ROC continued to fight on but not even the steal in the tenth and final end was enough to catch the singing Swiss who took a 8-7 win to go 3-0 in the round-robin standings.

Consistent scoring was the key to Team USA’s 8-4 victory over the People’s Republic of China.

Skip Tabitha Peterson, whose rink includes her sister Tara, opened strongly with a score of two, before then going unanswered for four ends culminating in a 6-1 lead.

The Chinese team rallied back with a score of two in the seventh end to cut the deficit in half. The US then responded by picking up a pair of points in the eighth to stretch their lead out to 8-3.

Sticking at it, the Chinese continued into the ninth but a solitary point wasn’t enough to stay in touch with Peterson and her rink, and so the hosts conceded the game.

Jennifer Jones is no longer unbeaten at an Olympic Games thanks to the impressive efforts of Japan’s ‘Loco Solare’.

The 47-year-old skip went 11-0 at the 2014 Winter Olympics to win gold in the women’s competition. After her foursome’s victory over Republic of Korea yesterday