Nice Britain’s hopes of a medal on the Flag Soccer World Championships had been dashed as the ladies’s workforce had been crushed by Japan on Thursday.
GB began the day with a last-16 match towards Switzerland and gained 35-26, with Emily Kemp scoring 4 touchdowns.
GB, ranked fourth on the earth after profitable final 12 months’s European Championships, then confronted Japan within the quarter-finals and suffered a 40-34 defeat.
Kemp once more scored 4 touchdowns however third-ranked Japan claimed the game-winning rating with 29 seconds remaining.
GB then confronted Canada to assist decide fifth to eighth place, and Canada edged a 48-47 shootout, regardless of GB quarterback Brittany Botterill throwing seven landing passes – 5 to Kemp.
GB’s ladies now face an important recreation towards Italy on Friday. The winners will clinch seventh place – and solely the highest seven groups qualify for the 2025 World Video games in China.
A last-16 defeat for GB’s men on Wednesday left them battling for a spot between ninth and sixteenth, and so they gained 34-28 towards Spain earlier than beating Japan 36-34.
Which means GB, ranked fifteenth on the earth, face eighth-ranked Israel on Friday to find out who finishes ninth.
The event in Finland marks the beginning of the Olympic cycle for flag soccer, which has been added to the programme for LA 2028.