Olympics-Curling-Swedes, Swiss victorious as women's event gets underway
By Hritika Sharma
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BEIJING : Sweden's Olympic title defence got off to a winning start on Thursday while world champions Switzerland survived a scare to prevail in their opening round-robin match as the women's curling competition kicked off at the National Aquatics Centre.
Great Britain’s women’s curling team suffered a narrow 6-5 defeat to world champions Switzerland in their round robin opener. What started out as a cagey contest turned into a tense tactical battle as the sides entered an extra end tied at 5-5.
Eve Muirhead's British curling rink lost their opening match at the Winter Olympics in a tense extra end against world champions Switzerland.
BEIJING — There was no wide-eyed glance around the venue, no expression of wonderment at the Olympic rings.
Team GB curlers Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds have promised to pick themselves up and go again in the men’s and women’s team competitions, after missing out on Winter Olympic bronze in the mixed doubles. The world champions were thrashed 9-3 by Sweden, who won with two ends to spare. The damage was done in the second and third ends, which their opponents took by four and three stones respectively.
Great Britain's wait for their first medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics goes on after curling mixed doubles pair Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat lost their bronze-medal match 9-3 to Sweden.
The journey to the top of the Olympic podium – or any spot on the podium for that matter – will be a daunting one for the Canadian women’s curling team.