Five things to know about Team Canada skip Brad Gushue

Brad Gushue and his Canada team had the chance to clinch a men's curling semi-final spot when they faced ROC on Tuesday (15 February).

However, Sergei Glukhov's rink came out on top, winning 7-6 after an extra end.

This leaves the Canadians needing a win against Great Britain on Thursday to guarantee their place in the last four, or face a nervous wait to see how ROC, USA and Switzerland fare in their closing round-robin games.

Plenty of attention will be on Turin 2006 gold medallist Gushue and his team ahead of their final round robin match.

Here are five things you need to know about them.

Team Gushue had been on a run of consecutive wins before Tuesday's defeat to ROC.

The Canadians brushed aside reigning champions USA 10-5 on Saturday with a 7-1 margin after five ends prompting them to bring in alternate Marc Kennedy - gold medallist with skip Kevin Martin at Vancouver 2010 - to play the second half.

They followed that up with a 7-3 victory over Italy and a 10-8 decision over China.

This run also highlighted Team Gushue's ability to bounce back from defeat, as they had gone down to Switzerland and world champions Sweden in their previous two games.

They will need to show that resilience again on Thursday if they are to make the semi-finals later that day.

Beijing 2022 is Gushue's second Games appearance having skipped Canada to goal in Turin 16 years ago.

They came through the round-robin with a 6-3 record before scoring an 11-5 victory over the United States who had current skip John Shuster playing lead.

A score of five in the ninth end saw the Americans concede before the final end.

Surprise packages Finland awaited in the final and a score of six in the sixth end helped Canada take gold 10-4 with two ends to