Winter Olympics: GB women's curlers squeeze into semi-final against Sweden
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Winter Olympics: GB women beat ROC to reach curling semi-finals
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Great Britain's women's curlers squeezed into the semi-finals of the Winter Olympics after defeating the Russian Olympic Committee 9-4.
Eve Muirhead, Vicky Wright, Jen Dodds and Hailey Duff took their record to five wins and four losses to progress on the Draw Shot Challenge tie-breaker.
They will face Sweden in the last four at 12:05 GMT on Friday.
Bruce Mouat's men's side are guaranteed a silver medal after winning their semi-final against the United States.
It was the Swedish defending champions who ultimately ensured Britain would progress as they beat South Korea long after the other three matches had finished, to eliminate their opponents.
Muirhead's team had already held up their end of the bargain by that stage, as the British skip delivered a fantastic final stone in the ninth end to score four and clinch victory against the ROC.
"We had to win that game today and that's what we went out there to do," Muirhead told BBC Sport.
"We fought out hearts out, nothing was in our control apart from our own game and that's what we did.
"I was in this position in 2018 as well in the semi-final and I do want to do one better. I'm very proud of this team, we've played very well all week.
"As much as we've lost a few games all of us know those losses have not been through a lot of bad play, it's been inches here and there - but that's curling."
Switzerland will face Japan in the other women's semi-final, with Canada the only team with a record of five wins and four losses to miss out.
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