Great Britains wheelchair curlers won two successive matches on Sunday to get their Winter Paralympic campaign back on track in Sochi. The team, who lost to Canada in their opening game on Saturday, beat Sweden 6-4 in their first game of the day. Aileen Neilsons rink then recovered from a mid-match slump to make a late charge and defeat South Korea 8-4. On the slopes, former British soldier Mick Brennan finished 10th in the mens Super-G. The wheelchair curlers led Sweden 2-1 at the halfway point of their opening game of the day and had some anxious moments after their opponents scored three in the next end to go 4-2 up. But a superb steal by skip Neilson in the seventh end followed by an error from the Swedes handed the GB team victory. Things were equally close against Korea, who led 4-3 with two ends to go, but after some excellent team play in the seventh end, a superb shot by Neilson helped them score five for an 8-4 advantage which the Koreans could not reduce in the final end. To come out of the day with two wins was what we wanted, Neilson told BBC Sport. Im just delighted that the team worked really hard together. Our dynamics were brilliant and we supported each other. We had a good start against Korea and kept it clean but they had a good fightback. However we dug in and were patient and had a big seventh end and kept it clean in the final end.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:41:53 +0000
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