Winter Olympics 2022 - Bruce Mouat and Team GB well beaten by USA in men's curling contest

Team GB suffered their first defeat in the men’s curling when losing a topsy-turvy encounter to Team USA. Hammy McMillan, Bobby Lammie, Grant Hardie and skip Bruce Mouat beat Italy in their Olympic Games opener. Ad/> After trailing 5-2 at one stage to John Landsteiner, Matt Hamilton, Christopher Plys and John Shuster they took the lead after six ends.

/> Beijing 2022'It's all over' — Team GB's women seal curling victory over Sweden12 HOURS AGO But errors crept in and USA skip Shuster took advantage to take his rink to a record of two wins and one defeat from three games. A cagey opening saw the first end blanked by US skip Shuster, but an excellent shot from USA’s No. 3 Plys opened up the second end for his skip who delivered two excellent draws to score two.

For as accurate as Shuster was in the second, he was slightly awry with his first stone in the third. It handed the advantage to Mouat and he delivered an excellent take-out to sit two and level the contest. Schedule and results Medal table Disbelief was the look on Mouat’s face during the fourth end.

After the impressive Plys had put the USA in a strong position, the British skip went for a double or triple take-out. The aim was to flick thin off the top scoring USA stone and drive onto the two in the head. He executed the first part, but somehow his stone went between the two US rocks without touching either.

Mouat laid his final stone on the edge of the button to ask the question of Shuster, but the American removed it to secure a score of three. Mouat delivered a nose take-out with his final stone of the fifth to take two and cut the deficit to one at the halfway point. GB secured two against the hammer in the sixth, meaning Mouat’s team had moved from 5-2 down