Curling gold medal final LIVE – Eve Muirhead's rink go for Team GB's first gold of Beijing 2022 against Japan

Curling final 1st End: Great Britain 0-0 Japan Good to know that the brilliant GB Olympic silver medallists Bruce Mouat and Hammy McMillan are cheering on the girls tonight after that epic men's final with Sweden yesterday. Ad/> /> Beijing 2022When is women’s curling final? UK time, how to watch, Beijing 2022 scheduleYESTERDAY AT 18:33 Curling final: GB have the hammer Always nice to start with the honour of going second in the unforgiving sport of curling. GB remarkably trailed 4-0 after the first end of their semi-final against Sweden on Friday.

They will be hoping to make a faster start in the final. The sounds of the bagpipes welcome in the teams. And we are off and running in this gold-medal match as Japan quickly plant their first red stone in the house with five stones of the first end remaining.

Muirhead's date with destiny /> GB overcame Japan 10-4 in the round-robin stage, but that means little on this occasion. Japan are marginal underdogs, but go into this final having upset world champions Switzerland 8-6 in their semi-final, after being beaten 8-4 by the same opponents in their final round-robin game Muirhead is contesting her first Olympic gold-medal match having been to the semi-finals twice before since her first Olympic Games in 2010. She earned a bronze in 2014 at the Sochi Games in Russia.

It was only the second time the GB women claimed a curling medal after the 2002 gold in Salt Lake. There are guaranteed at least a silver medal after that epic 12-11 win over Sweden in the first extra end on Friday after agonisingly finishing fourth in Pyeongchang 2018. Can Eve and her team achieve their lifelong dream tonight? Only one way to find out.