Beijing 2022 GB curling skip Eve Muirhead: “This team has a lot of resilience"

Team GB are semi-final bound at the women's curling competition at Beijing 2022.

Eve Muirhead, Jennifer Dodds, Vicky Wright, and Hailey Duff defeated ROC convincingly 9-4 to set up an intriguing semi-final against Sweden.

Team Muirhead finished the round robin stage in third place with a 5-4 record. They will be back in action on Friday 18 February at 20:05 local time with a place in the final on the line.

Skip Muirhead spoke about the significance of Great Britain's achievement after the win over ROC, and other results going their way to guarantee the third-pace finish.

"It's very hard to concentrate fully for three hours, so I'm not going to lie, I had one eye looking across at the [other] games," Muirhead said

"I hope I didn't show it. It's always nice to keep an eye out when you know its either going to get you an Olympic qualifying semi-final spot or not."

Team GB lost their very first match of the Games, a narrow 6-5 defeat by fellow semi-finalist and the team with the best round robin record of 8-1, Switzerland.

But Scot Muirhead praised the way they fought back.

"This team have got a lot of resilience. That's one thing we've showed all season. We've come from a squad of nine people to a team that have won the Europeans, qualified for the Olympic Games and now have a semi-final spot.

"I don't think you can turn your back on this team. We've shown a lot of character, a lot of grit and determination and we fully deserve the spot."

Team GB lost the 2018 Olympic Winter Games semi-final to Sweden before missing out on bronze to Japan in devastating fashion.

"I don't want to be reminded of that," Muirhead said. "This is my third Olympic semi-final but I don't want it to go the way that 2018 went.

"That was tough but I