you know, this course is really challenging and i definitely put it down when i needed to today. even though i'm not in the finals, i landed, which is better than not landing! not to be, then, for katie 0rmerod. she still has a second snowboarding event to come here, but her hopes of bringing britain an early medal have ended in disappointment. there was better news, though, for britain's curlers, as bruce mouat and jen dodds secured another victory against the czech republic. after nearly throwing away a huge lead in their previous match, this time, no such problems. nicely done. oh, just enough. obviously quite a resilient team anyway, but that kind of proved it for us yesterday. so we just didn't want to let this one slip away. we really played welljust to see that one out. and after winning four of their first five matches, a place in the semifinals is now firmly in their sights. andy swiss, bbc news, beijing.