韓 Curling Mix Double, Korea Kim Sun-young and Jung Young-seok lost all three games... a 5-8 defeat to a Swiss couple

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He is on the verge of elimination from the preliminary round. The curling mix double Kim Sun-young (Gangneung City Hall) and Jung Young-seok (Gangwon Provincial Office) fell into a three-game losing streak in the preliminary round of the 2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics.

Kim Sun-young and Jung Young-seok lost 5-8 to Switzerland's Breyer Schwabler-Jannick Schwabler in the third round of the tournament at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, on the 6th (Korea time).

South Korea, which had previously lost to Sweden (3-10) and Italy (4-8), has lost only three games without a victory, tying for the lowest with the Czech Republic and Norway in eighth place. Switzerland won the match against Korea for the second time. Canada and England won all three games.

Kim Sun-young and Jung Young-seok became the last countries to win the ticket to the finals in December last year through the Qualification Playoff, the final qualifying round for the Olympics. He was in crisis after losing all three of his first games at the Olympics. The mix-double can advance to the semi-final tournament only when 10 countries play full leagues and finish in the top four.

On this day, South Korea gave up a point at the first end and succeeded in turning the game around 2-1 thanks to Kim Sun-young's exquisite last shot at the second end.

However, it was painful not to overcome the third-end crisis. Switzerland's Breyer Schwabler, who caught the back ball, pushed the Korean stone in the house with an accurate last shot, and South Korea allowed a 2-5 lead by allowing a large number of four runs.

A chase ensued. South Korea rallied one point from the fourth end and blocked the fifth-end first-off with one run to end the sixth with a 3-6.

South Korea took out a power-play card that can be used once per game in the sixth-end rear ball and threw a game-winning move. However, Kim Sun-young's last shot failed to stop in the house, and he had to be satisfied with two points.

He saved hope by narrowing the gap to 5-6, but the gap widened by giving up two points again to Switzerland, which countered with a power play at the seventh end. Kim Sun-young and Jung Young-seok, who tried to come from behind in the final 8th end, acknowledged the defeat and asked the opposing team to shake hands when the possibility of a reversal disappeared on Switzerland's last shot.

Kim Sun-young and Jung Young-seok, who have lost three consecutive games, will play the fourth match of the preliminary round against England at 10:35 p.m. on the 6th.

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