of the winter olympics after the men s curlers beat the united states to guarantee themselves at least silver, having qualified for saturday s final. skip bruce mouat steered his team to an 8 4 victory alongside grant hardie, bobby lammie and hammy mcmillan in what was a tight encounter. they will face sweden in the gold medal match on saturday morning. it s like the last two weeks, especially for myself i guess has been a bit of a roller coaster. so this is very special. i m just so excited to be able to share the moment with the guys. that celebration at the end there was just pure elation, and i don t think i can sum it up any other way. this scottish skipper delivered the final stone in the end it to clinch a 9 4 win, team gb s place was confirmed as sweden beat south korea. a tearful kamila valieva, the russian skater, finished outside the medal places in herfinal event
she fought back tears at the end of her routine as she was cheered on by fellow russians in the stands. its been a good day in beijing for great britain s curlers, the men are through to the semi finals after a morale boosting 7 6 win over sweden. bruce mouat, grant hardie, bobby lammie, and hammy mcmillan got the better of the world champions to claim a sixth win from seven matches. they have two more round robin matches to play, against the russian olympic committee and canada who are also in the top four at the moment we ve got two tough games still to come, the russians and the canadians as well. to win those two games and get to the semifinal would be the best situation for us, so we will obviously have to come out and play really well to beat both of them. we are very chuffed with that performance so if we do that again, we will be close and team gb s women beatjapan10 4
medal. it means they were when at least they silver. bruce mouat steering his team to victory. in what was a tense match, playing alongside grant hardie, bobby lammie, and hammy mcmillan. they ll face sweden on saturday atjust after 6am and ends the very real prospect of gb failing to win a medal at a winter olumpics for the first time in 30 years. it s like the last two weeks, especially for myself i guess has been a bit of a roller coaster. so this is very special. i m just so excited to be able to share the moment with the guys. that celebration at the end there was just pure elation, and i don t think i can sum it up any other way. the women s team are looking to match that
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