Winter Olympics: Great Britain have mixed fortunes in curling

Great Britain's men's curlers recovered from a loss to the United States to beat Norway, while the women suffered a tough 9-7 defeat by South Korea.

Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, and Hammy McMillan were dominant in a 8-3 win over Norway.

They had earlier been beaten 9-7 by the American defending champions.

In the women's event, Eve Muirhead, Jen Dodds, Vicky Wright and Hailey Duff lost after conceding four in the penultimate end when leading by one.

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In both events, the 10 competing teams play each other once in a round-robin format, with the top four progressing to the semi-finals.

Muirhead's side - who don't play their next match against the United States until 12:05 on Saturday -have now lost two of their three matches and face an uphill task, while Mouat's rink have two wins and one loss.

Leading 6-5 in the ninth end, Muirhead was left a tough shot to prevent a big score, and when her stone caught a guard, it set up South Korean skip Kim Eun-jung to knock it out of the house - the circle within which stones can score - for four.

It was a sensational turnaround from the 2018 silver medallists, who gifted Britain a steal of two in the previous end after failing to release a stone before the hog line and incurring a foul.

They held on in the last to ensure a first victory.

Muirhead admitted frustration at how the ninth end went, especially as Great Britain had the hammer - the final stone - in the closing end, potentially giving them a greater chance of scoring what they needed to turn the game around.

"I would say we had control after the eighth end - and if my last in the ninth had curled another centimetre we were going to give up [only] two, max, and we had the hammer in the last," Muirhead told BBC Sport.

"It's frustrating and its annoying but that's curling isn't it? You win by inches and you lose by inches."

Mouat's rink recover after earlier being edged out

Great Britain's men returned to the Ice Cube with purpose in Friday's evening match against Norway, determined to get back to winning ways after their morning's loss to the USA.

They gained the upper hand with a steal for two in the fourth end - when Norway had looked set to score instead - and then forced a one in the fifth to stay in control.

When Mouat's men got three in the sixth, there was no way back for Norway, who eventually shook hands at the end of the seventh end with Great Britain leading 8-3.

Mouat told BBC Sport: "That's what we wanted to do, we wanted to have a nice bounce-back, a really clinical performance."

That clinical victory followed a close contest against the USA, whose men's gold medal in Pyeonchang four years ago was such a shock that they have not been widely tipped to defend their title.

But skip John Shuster is a wily competitor, and his 100% accuracy in the first five ends put Britain under pressure as they stormed into a 5-2 lead.

Britain rallied to score two in the fifth end and steal another two in the next to lead 6-5, and appeared to have a grip of the match.

But the USA took it to 7-7 and, in the penultimate end, they crafted a chance for four with Shuster's last stone and though they only took two, they went into the last with a two-shot lead.

They clung on for a hard-fought victory after a rare Mouat error in the last.

"The start we had wasn't the best, we gave them a quick lead and you don't want to see that against a team like that," the British skip said.

"We also didn't finish the game very well. I was struggling to make those key draws that would have forced them into tough ones."

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