Olympics: Japan curlers advance to semis despite loss to Swiss

Japan advanced to the Beijing Winter Olympic women's curling semifinals Thursday despite losing 8-4 to Switzerland in its last preliminary round game.Skip Satsuki Fujisawa and team Loco Solare came into the clash ranked third in the 10-team round robin at 5-3, with a win over the first-place Swiss guaranteeing a top-four finish and semifinal berth.Unable to secure the victory, the 2018 bronze medalist needed other results to go its way to reach the playoffs.A win for South Korea against Sweden would have eliminated Japan, but an 8-4 loss by the "Garlic Girls" in the 2018 gold-medal game rem…READ FULL ARTICLE