The Latvian curling duo Daina Barone / Arnis Veidemanis started the qualifying tournament for the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games in the Netherlands on Sunday with two losses.
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In the first game, Latvian curling players lost 3: 8 to the Finns Ona and Aku Kauste.
The Latvian duo won their first end with 2-0, but in the next two Ona and her brother Aku regained two points. In the fourth end, the Latvians regained the lead, but did not recover after three lost points. The fight ended prematurely after the seventh seventh.
In the evening, Latvian athletes acknowledged the superiority of Japanese curling players Chiaki Macumar and Yasumaa Tainda with 2: 8.
In the first two endings, the Japanese scored one point, but in the third, the two stones were closer to the center than the Latvians – 2: 2. In the next three end, the opponents scored two more points each and the game ended after the sixth end.
The Dutch city of Leeuwarden will host one of the strongest curling countries in the world from December 18 to find a selection of mixed couples, women and men, who will provide the latest tickets to the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The fight will be started first by mixed couples, including the Latvian national team Daina Barone / Arnis Veidemanis.
The mixed curling Olympic qualification in curling will be held for the first time. It will be attended by teams from 14 countries, who will compete for the last two tickets to the Beijing Winter Olympics and join those who have already qualified – host China, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Czech Republic.
11 of the participants won the Olympic qualifying tournament thanks to their place in the 2021 World Championships in mixed pairs, while the other three won this place in the Olympic pre-qualification tournament in Turkey in October, including the Latvian mixed pair team Barone / Veidemanis.
Group A is played by Australia, Denmark, the Russian Curling Federation duo, Spain, Turkey, Hungary and Germany, while Group B is played by the USA, Estonia, Japan, New Zealand, Latvia, South Korea and Finland.
The national team will play in two groups of seven, playing in a round in Groups A and B. The best pair in each group will automatically compete for a place in the Olympics. The second and third place winners will compete for the remaining two places.
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