Team GB curling teams on brink of semi-finals at Winter Olympics 2018

Britain’s curlers are funded to the tune of £5million but both teams had been in danger of early and costly exits.

But today the men and women, skipped by Kyle Smith and Eve Muirhead respectively, each picked up a third consecutive win, putting them on the verge of the semi-finals.

Both teams now have five wins from eight matches and have one round-robin game remaining, the men against the USA, while the women face Canada, the world champions who have been surprisingly inconsistent in PyeongChang to date. Even if the British teams are beaten in their last round-robin matches, they could still go through if other results go their way.

Team Muirhead’s Canadian coach Glenn Howard admitted: “It’s a little bit different for me being this side but I have GB on my back and I’m 100 per cent behind them. We now control our own destiny.”

Muirhead led her side to an 8-6 victory over Japan, the match turning on a three against the hammer on the sixth end.

Smith’s men’s team were easy winners over Norway, the only thing eye-catching about the Norwegians being their colourful trousers after a poor display in a 10-3 defeat.

Britain went into an immediate 3-0 lead, their cause helped by errors from Norway skip Thomas Ulsrud, who had a day to forget.

Smith said: “Against a team with so much experience and for us to come out and play like that shows just what we’re made of. It’s just pleasing we’ve managed to put a good string of wins together now and we’re in a position where we’re in control of our destiny.”

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