Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds dreaming big after teeing up medal showdown at Winter Olympic Games

Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds are dreaming big as they prepare for a medal showdown at the Winter Olympics.

The mixed curling world champions saw despair turn to joy as a complicated set of results saw them progress to the final four - finding out they'd get a guaranteed medal match while they waited for the bus.

Mouat and Dodds had been downcast after a 6-2 defeat to Norway in their penultimate round robin match and were preparing for a must-win clash with the United States in the early hours of the morning.

But Australia's shock win over curling powerhouse Canada and unbeaten Italy's victory over Sweden meant a complicated mathematical equation of head-to-head matches still secured a semi-final place.

"I'm afraid that I’m no good at maths," joked Mouat.

"We’ve just had a hug and we are obviously very excited. We’ve still got a job to do and we want to finish the round robin with a win; that’ll set us up well for the semi-finals.

"I don’t think we knew the permutations of people winning and losing. We know it’s going to be tough whoever we play in the semis, we just want to go out and string out eight ends like we know we can.

"We were the first athletes to start for Team GB and to be able to get a medal would be a great achievement."

A revenge match against Norway is their most likely semi-final opponent but permutations could also see them take on Canada, Sweden or tournament favourites Italy.

Mouat admitted frustration the world champion partnership have lacked consistency in their matches so far, winning one match and then slipping to a narrow defeat in the next.

It's two decades since Rhona Martin inspired the British women's rink to gold in Salt Lake City and Dodds, who is also part of Eve Muirhead's women's team