Sweden blank the sixth end to retain the hammer and leave the score locked at 3-3 in their semi-final against Switzerland. The winner will play either GB or Canada in tomorrow's women's final. The beaten team will play the loser of the GB v Canada match for bronze.

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Like us here in the BBC Sport office, you might be thinking that new Olympic snowboard champion Vic Wild's name is far from traditionally Russian. And you would be spot on. That's because the 27-year-old was born in the USA before switching allegiance to Russia in a story of love and frustration.

In the run-up to Vancouver 2010, Wild missed out on selection for the US. A year later he was dating a Russian snowboarder Alena Zavarzina and - citing a lack of support and coaching at home - decided to marry his beau and subsequently join the Russian team. He won world bronze in 2013 and here he is now - a gold medal-winning home athlete at Sochi 2014.

Anna Thompson
BBC Sport in Sochi

"Let's go Canada, let's go" is sung for the first time by the Canada fans as Jennifer Jones draws for a one to lead 5-3. The momentum is definitely with the North Americans, who have been known to crack under pressure, but Eve Muirhead's rink are unable to apply much at the moment."

Canada make the first mistake of the seventh end, but Britain fail to take advantage and we're as you were with just the single GB stone sitting in the house with five stones remaining. "I can see this end being blanked," says BBC analyst Jackie Lockhart.

Angie, external: Never watched curling in my life but gripped. If Eve steps up now, they can win it.

Em, external: I have no idea how the game works, or why I'm excited, but I'm getting well into curling.

Jackie Lockhart
2002 world curling gold medallist on BBC TV

"It was not the start Great Britain would have been looking for, but the girls are hanging in there. This game is about patience and we don't need to panic. There are a lot of ends to play for."

Steve Cram
BBC Sport curling commentator

"Jennifer Jones takes the one for Canada and extends the lead by two. Another good end from Great Britain but even though they are down, they are playing well enough to still win this semi-final. They have the hammer in the next end - they need to take a two and tie it up."

Britain do well to restrict Canada to just the one shot in the sixth end, which means Britain will have the hammer - and a chance of a two in the seventh end as they attempt to level up this match.

Rob Hodgetts
BBC Sport in Sochi

"A bunch of bare-chested French fans in the sunny stands are 'coq-au-hoop' with two countrymen Missilier and Pinturault top of the leaderboard. A third, Fanara, missed out on making it a 1-2-3. American Ted Ligety still to come."

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Russian Vic Wild wins gold in the men's snowboard parallel giant slalom, beating Switzerland's Nevin Galmarini in the final. Wild, who used to compete for the USA, earlier saw his wife - Alena Zavarzina - win bronze in the women's final.

Andrew McNair, external: So close in Sochi but the girls certainly still have a chance here. Might need a Murdoch though

Guy, external: Indecisive from #TeamGB on that end. If they'd wanted 1, they'd have dropped stone in house centre. Played shot and unlucky.

Swiss Patrizia Kummer has taken the gold medal at her first Olympics. She beat Japan's Tomoka Takeuchi, who was racing in her fourth Olympics. Takeuchi fell in the final, handing Kummer the gold. Russian Alena Zavarzina took bronze and will now watch her husband Vic Wild compete for gold in the men's race.

Anna Thompson
BBC Sport in Sochi

"Canada are definitely in control at the halfway mark, leading 4-3 and with the hammer in the sixth end. The British fans are rather subdued and coaches David Hay and Rhona Howie pass on their thoughts as the women eat fruit during the break.

"The game is close statistically, GB with an overall accuracy rate of 84% to Canada's 85%, but it's those fine margins that will make the difference."

BOA chairman Sebastian Coe on BBC TV: "When Great Britain men's curling skip Dave Murdoch got the winning stone (in the play-off against Norway), horns were going on the M25 and people were flashing their headlights. A similar moment I remember that happening was when we won the Ryder Cup.

"The atmosphere in Team GB is fantastic and there has been some promising performances. The two medals have been a high point and it bodes well for the future. We need to build on this. We now have a huge opportunity in some sports."

Switzerland level things up against Sweden in the other semi-final with five ends remaining. The winner will play GB or Canada in the final tomorrow.

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It's the mid-session interval in GB's semi-final with Canada, so Steve Cram and Jackie Lockhart take the opportunity to chat to London 2012 maestro Lord Sebastian Coe. "The atmosphere in the team is fantastic," said the 57-year-old. "The big challenge is to build on this performance."

As it is, GB take just the one shot. Not ideal as with five ends to go, Britain still trail by one with Canada also having the advantage of the hammer in the sixth.

There's a chance of a two here for GB as they ponder what to do with their final stone. That said, if they get this wrong, they could lose a shot.

Twitter has also been a busy platform for Olympic discussion. Yesterday a collective 2.1m tweets mentioned a variety of Winter Olympic terms and 3.5m tweets have featured the hashtag #Sochi2014 since the games began.

With nearly 670,000 mentions, ice hockey star TJ Oshie (@OSH74) is the most mentioned athlete on Twitter at the Games. Meanwhile, South Korea's women speed skaters proved most popular yesterday as they received more than 3,600 tweets per minute taking gold in the 3,000m.

Germany, Czech Republic, Finland and Russia all secure automatic qualification for the cross-country men's team sprint final, with Sweden, Kazakhstan, USA and France securing fastest loser spots. The final takes place at 12:15 GMT.