Winter Olympics: Immense Britain’s ladies lose 10-5 to Sweden in curling semi-finals

Immense Britain’s ladies curlers will play for a Winter Olympic bronze medal after a ten-5 semi-final loss to Sweden in Pyeongchang.

Victory would imply GB checklist their simplest medal haul by surpassing the Four obtained at Sochi 2014 and Chamonix 1924.

Eve Muirhead’s workers will face Japan, who misplaced to hosts South Korea within the many semi, at 11:05 GMT on Saturday.

« We peaceable assemble a medal to play for, so we will give it our all, » Scot Muirhead, 27, instructed BBC Sport.

« We gave it our all and the Swedish ladies were on fire. I disregarded a pair of key draws and to boot that you may per chance no longer obtain the money for to produce that.

« We’re fully gutted. I know this is able to presumably well purchase time to catch over that loss.

« We have got knowledgeable onerous for the final three or Four years, but we were outplayed. »

UK Sport predicted a total of between Four and 10 GB medals on the Games, but region a map of no lower than 5 after extra than doubling funding for this Olympic and Paralympic cycle to extra than £32m.

Skelton sliders Lizzy Yarnold, Laura Deas and Dom Parsons and slopestyle skier Izzy Atkin assemble obtained medals, while the ladies’s curling workers were belief of truly appropriate one of the most most attention-grabbing British hopes after claiming bronze in Sochi Four years within the past.

Though they misplaced to Sochi silver medallists Sweden within the crew stage in Pyeongchang, Muirhead’s rink went into the semi-final on the lend a hand of three successive victories.

But they found themselves 2-zero down after two ends and, despite a most attention-grabbing shot from Muirhead to degree at three-three within the fifth, Sweden built a 5-stone profit.

Three of those scores came within the seventh extinguish, when Britain had the hammer, and, after Muirhead lowered the deficit to eight-5 within the eighth, Sweden added two within the ninth to stable their put within the closing.

« Any semi-final you lose is intensely, very onerous, » said skip Muirhead.

« As a workers we are a in actuality stable unit. We’ll make stronger every diverse as noteworthy as we are able to.

« We had a correct alternative, but we were on the lend a hand foot from the start and it became onerous to grind it lend a hand. »

Muirhead, vice-skip Anna Sloan, Vicki Adams and Lauren Grey face a Japan aspect who misplaced after an extra extinguish in a dramatic semi.

Adams said: « We have got been on this residing earlier than, so we will rally around every diverse, work in actuality onerous and specialise within the sport. »

‘Sweden did no longer crack below power’ – diagnosis

David Murdoch, Olympic silver medallist at Sochi 2014, on BBC Sport

We noticed Sweden play a terrific sport. They did no longer crack below the power and were stable till the extinguish.

Sadly for Immense Britain, it did no longer work of their favour. That will likely be a subtle one for the females.

Sarsfield fails to qualify

Meanwhile, GB’s Emily Sarsfield did no longer qualify from the quarter-finals of the Winter Olympics ladies’s ski wicked, despite making it through the heats when her Canadian opponent crashed.

Competing at her first Winter Games, the 34-one year-light has no longer got any UK Sport funding and has been self-coached for all however the past six months of her 12 years on the ski circuit.

« I in actual fact assemble funded it by surroundings up a ski college. I in actual fact assemble worked extra than one jobs through the summer time, » she said.

« Or no longer it is a various path to my peers but it real makes me that shrimp bit extra hungry. »

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