Summary

  • Women's curling: GB stun reigning champions Sweden to reach gold-medal match

  • Women's curling: GB women to face Japan in final

  • Men's 1,000m speed skating: GB's Cornelius Kersten finishes ninth

  • Canada beat US 8-5 to win men's curling bronze

  • China's Eileen Gu wins halfpipe gold to claim third medal of Games, GB's Zoe Atkin ninth

  • Women’s bobsleigh: First two runs, Mica McNeill and Montell Douglas go for GB (12:00 GMT)

  1. curling

    'They've done it!'published at 15:12 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 11-12 Great Britain

    Steve Cram
    Curling commentator on BBC TV

    Great Britain are in the final! They've done it! They don't even have to play the last stone!

    They thought they had done it once, they had to do it again.

    What a journey this has been. Have you ever seen so much drama?

  2. Postpublished at 15:10 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 11-12 Great Britain (after 11 ends)

    The British quarter solemnly shake hands with their dejected opponents and then the emotion explodes!

    A victory jig from the Fab Four ensues - twist and shout, come on!!

    Then the support staff pile down from the stands to join the girls and ramp up the party.

    Incredible scenes.

  3. GREAT BRITAIN INTO THE FINALpublished at 15:07 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022
    Breaking

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 11-12 Great Britain (after 11 ends)

    AND BREATHEEEEE!!! GREAT BRITAIN HAVE DONE IT!

    Eve Muirhead, Vicky Wright, Jen Dodds and Hailey Duff are into the Olympic final.

    Congratulations!!

    Sweden's Anna Hasselborg can't land her final throw inside the British stone. That means Britain nick the one and seal victory!

  4. curling

    'Nerves'published at 15:06 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 11-11 Great Britain (after ten ends)

    Jackie Lockhart
    Four-time Olympic curler on BBC TV

    Lot's and lot's of nerves out there.

  5. Postpublished at 15:06 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 11-11 Great Britain (after ten ends)

    Eve Muirhead and Anna Hasselborg trade blows - it goes down to the final stones.

    If Hasselborg doesn't land this, it is all over...

  6. Postpublished at 15:05 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 11-11 Great Britain (after 10 ends)

    The house remains empty. Vicky Wright takes out a Swedish stone to leave the target invitingly open.

  7. Postpublished at 15:04 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 11-11 Great Britain (after 10 ends)

    What else could add further drama to this situation. I know, a time out. Sweden bring down their coach, Wayne Middaugh, at the halfway stage of the extra end.

    He lays down some instructions and talks about 'peeling' and 'freezing angles'.

    "You're just trying to shrink the rings down," he says.

    Exactly.

  8. Get involvedpublished at 15:00 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    #bbcolympics

    @chaffy2402: Honestly, curling is giving me feels that no sport has any right to. THE. DRAMA.

    Charles Commins: Anyone else watching the curling and thinking it’s the most tense thing ever?

    RuthAtweets: Absolutely cannot take your eyes off the curling.

  9. curling

    'Not been boring'published at 15:00 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 11-11 Great Britain (after ten ends)

    Jackie Lockhart
    Four-time Olympic curler on BBC TV

    This game has certainly not been boring.

  10. Postpublished at 14:59 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 11-11 Great Britain (after 10 ends)

    There are a few fidgety bums among the British team in the stands, that's for sure.

    We know the feeling. The leather on the desk chair is being asked serious questions.

    Difficult to sit still and watch this.

  11. Postpublished at 14:57 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 11-11 Great Britain (after ten ends)

    Thomas Duncan
    BBC Scotland in Beijing

    It's silent in the Ice Cube. Nobody can really believe what they've just seen.

    The saving grace is GB have the hammer. How's your bottle?

  12. Postpublished at 14:56 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 11-11 Great Britain (after 10 ends)

    Blimey. This match has had more ups and down than a day out at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

    So what happens now? We go to an extra end - or ends.

    The team that scores first wins the game.

    Don't you dare disappear...

  13. curling

    'Can you believe it'published at 14:54 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 11-11 Great Britain (after 10 ends)

    Steve Cram
    Curling commentator on BBC TV

    Can you believe it? Can you believe it? Snatched away the chance of Great Britain being in the final.

    Absolutely incredible, 11 to Sweden, 11 to Great Britain.

  14. SWEDEN LEVEL!published at 14:52 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 11-11 Great Britain (after 10 ends)

    OMG! What a shot from Anna Hasselborg.

    The Swedish skip scores three and levels the match!

    Hasselborg arcs her final stone around the guards, nudging one of her stones in the house onto a British rival and that slopes out of the back door.

    What execution. What nerve. In-cred-i-ble.

  15. Postpublished at 14:51 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 8-11 Great Britain (after nine ends)

    Potential, I think, for a Swedish three here. Can barely watch....

  16. Postpublished at 14:51 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 8-11 Great Britain (after nine ends)

    Hasselborg's first stone - the penultimate Swedish stone of the end - joins the group in the house.

    Reds and yellows are ripe for picking off.

    Muirhead deliberates. She puts her final stone in front of the Swedish guard.

  17. Postpublished at 14:48 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 8-11 Great Britain (after nine ends)

    First up, Muirhead.

    She draws her first skip stone in... has it got enough legs? Think so. It taps the first red in the house.

    "That's good," she shrugs.

    Let's see if it is...

  18. Postpublished at 14:47 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Thomas Duncan
    BBC Scotland in Beijing

    The Japanese team are in tears - they've just stunned Switzerland 8-6 to make the final.

    Will GB be there too?

  19. Postpublished at 14:47 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 8-11 Great Britain (after nine ends)

    Applause from the next sheet - that's because Japan have beaten Switzerland in the other semi-final.

    Back on this sheet, we're down to Skips Muirhead and Hasselborg...

  20. Postpublished at 14:46 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2022

    Women's curling semi-final: Sweden 8-11 Great Britain (after nine ends)

    Two British yellow stones are at the back wall of the house, with a pair of Swedish reds north.

    Sweden, needing three remember, keep putting the guards up, Britain responding by taking them out.