Curling: Team GB's women hungry for medals, China test next

Team GB produced a dominant performance just when they needed it on Tuesday (15 February) to beat Japan 10-4 in the women's curling competition at Beijing 2022.

Eve Muirhead, Jen Dodds, Vicky Wright, and Hailey Duff were coming off a 7-3 defeat by Canada and responded with a convincing victory against the side that beat them to take bronze at PyeongChang 2018.

It was a win which saw them leapfrog Japan into third place in the round robin standings with the top four going through to the semi-finals.

Team Muirhead, who now have a 4-3 record, are back in action on Wednesday 16 February at 09:05 local time (01:05 GMT) in another must-win match against hosts China who are out of playoff contention.

They will close out the round robin against ROC on Thursday at 14:05 local time.

Team skip Muirhead is a veteran on the team playing at her fourth Games, and she reflected on the important victory over Japan.

"I think we knew that was a very important result for us today and we came out with a lot of fire," Muirhead said.

"We had a great chat last night after the loss to Canada. We knew it was a very important game to get a win. Coming out and getting a three in the first end, we couldn't have really asked for much more and managed to control it until the end."

Team GB jumped out to an early lead against 2018 bronze medallists Japan at the Ice Cube.

"Yeah to get the 6-1 lead was nice, and I think what we did very well was we didn't get complacent. We kept control of every end, every stone and saw the game out."

If Great Britain are to have a chance of adding to their two medals in previous Olympic women's curling competitions - gold in 2002 and bronze in 2014 - they will almost certainly need to win their last two round-robin