You won’t want to miss this: GB’s men are now just two wins away from a potential Winter Olympic gold, after punching their ticket to Thursday’s semi-finals in Cortina. Bruce Mouat’s team, recently crowned world champions, looked in danger of an early exit following a narrow defeat to Canada in their penultimate round-robin match.
But a dominant victory over the United States on Wednesday, paired with a few favorable results elsewhere, reignited British hopes. An accompanying upset later on Thursday morning—Italy losing to Switzerland—sealed Britain’s progression to a semi-final against the previously undefeated Swiss at 18:05 GMT.
If the Scots pull off a repeat of April’s world final performance, they’ll advance to Saturday’s gold-medal match (also at 18:05) and would at minimum retain Beijing’s silver. A loss would push them into Friday’s bronze contest (18:05) against the winner of the other semi between Canada and Norway, the latter having edged GB into fourth place on head-to-head record.
Turning to the women’s side, their path remains tighter: they must win a third straight game—against Italy on Thursday (13:05)—and then rely on Switzerland defeating the United States to reach Friday’s semi-finals.
