Japanese national team "Smile Japan" aiming to win the Olympics' first victory and medals at 9th place in the world of ice hockey girls will compete against the fifth place in the world in Sweden in the preliminary rounds of the 10th league.

On the 9th, at the Gwangdong Hockey Center in the competition venue, we made the last adjustment for about an hour. In practice, we practiced practical battle with attack centered assuming Swedish with a strong guard, and finally we checked the score pattern from haste in game format.

Captain Ozawa Chief player practiced mainly on raising the tempo of play towards tomorrow, but since the second half of practice was able to play in a good shape, it will continue as it is I wanted to fight by believing in them, I'm confident that I have been working towards this Olympics for four years.

8 teams will participate in the ice hockey girls, divided into 4 teams, and from the 10 th round will be held a preliminary rounds round-robin. Then, the top two teams of the group made in the top four world rankings proceed to the semi-finals, the remaining 2 teams to the quarterfinals, the top two teams going into the quarterfinals for the lower groups into which Japan enters.