Day five of the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games continued with two critical matches for Team Neilson and the GB wheelchair curlers against South Korea and China, whilst Millie Knight and Brett Wild Women’s VI Slalom has now been moved to Sunday.
Wheelchair Curling
The Great Britain rink of Aileen Neilson, Gregor Ewan, Robert McPherson, Hugh Nibloe and Angie Malone MBE went into today with their hopes of qualifying resting on two must win matches.
The first match of the day was against South Korea and although a valiant effort from GB, Neilson and her team were edged out 4-5. The result meant that GB were relying on Norway losing to Slovakia if they were to have any chance of progressing. The result didn’t go their way with Norway triumphing 7-6 in the end.
As a result Great Britain failed to reach the wheelchair curling semi-finals at the Winter Paralympics and their campaign ended with an emphatic 9-3 loss to China. The all Scottish rink finished their Paralympic Games with a sixth place finish after winning only five from their 11 matches.
China play Canada and South Korea meet Norway in Friday’s semi-finals, with the medal matches on Saturday.
Great Britain Skip Neilson said:
“We came here with high hopes of getting a medal. Our first goal was getting to the play-offs and we’d have liked to have finished off with a win but we didn’t,”
“It’s really disappointing, we’ve worked so hard with so much support from people back home.
“It will take us a while to get over it and it’s a learning experience.”
The action continues tomorrow with Scott Meenagh taking on the 15km Biathlon.
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