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GB curlers emerge from epic day with medal hopes revivedMedia caption, Team GB’s men steal four in a win over the USA as their slim semi-final hopes remain aliveByRichard WintonBBC Sport in CortinaPublished18 February 2026, 11:20 GMT618 Comments
Team GB’s Winter Olympics curling medal hopes in both the men’s and women’s events are somehow still alive after a day of scarcely-believable drama in Cortina.
Bruce Mouat’s world champions and Rebecca Morrison’s European silver medallists started the day facing the stark reality of leaving this high-end Italian resort early.
Both needed to beat the United States on Wednesday to have any chance of salvaging their semi-final hopes.
Both did. The men with a long-awaited flex of their muscles to win 9-2 in just six ends during the afternoon, the women with an extraordinary final-end steal to claim an implausible 8-7 triumph in the morning.
The latter then completed the second part of their job by seeing off Japan 9-3 in the evening to take their qualification hopes into the final round-robin match.
Three must-win games, three victories. And results elsewhere fell in the British rinks’ favour, too.
Once the clanking of granite stopped, the medal-match equation became clearer.
The men – who have played all of their nine round-robin matches – need either Italy or Norway to lose to the already-qualified Switzerland or Canada respectively on Thursday morning.
If one of them does, Mouat’s men will be in the last four later in the day with their form stress-tested and their hopes of upgrading their silver medal from four years ago revitalised.
“This is a horrible position to be in, watching other games and hoping results go our way,” the British skip told BBC Sport. “But we’re just going to have to keep our fingers and toes crossed and see what happens.”
The women still have work of their own to do on Thursday.
They must win a third game in a row – against hosts Italy (13:05 GMT) – and hope other results go their way if they are to make Friday’s semis.
The inexperienced rink – with only Jen Dodds surviving from the 2022 gold-medal winning team – finished sixth in last year’s World Championships and do seem to be hitting form at the right time.
Morrison, especially, has grown into this tournament and it is her bold shot-making that underpinned Wednesday’s two victories, which have hauled this team back to the brink of a shot at the medals.
“That was the proper Team Morrison out there,” Dodds told BBC Sport. “We have the talent of winning ugly but, tonight, that is how we like to perform.
“Now roll on tomorrow and embrace the experience and the noise.”
Italy and Norway would both finish above Great Britain’s men on the head-to-head if they win their final round-robin match – the top four go to the semi-finals
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Winter Olympics 2026
6-22 February
Milan-Cortina
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