Winter Olympics 2022 - Great Britain to face USA in men's curling semi-final after dominant 5-2 win over Canada

Great Britain finished top of the men’s curling round robin standings with a seventh consecutive win in Beijing as they beat Canada 5-2. Bruce Mouat’s rink will play reigning Olympic champions USA at 12:05 GMT today, starting with the hammer, for a spot in the final and a guaranteed medal.

Ad/> A win against the Americans would deliver Team GB’s first medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics. Beijing 2022GB keep women’s curling semi-final hopes alive by thrashing JapanYESTERDAY AT 08:31 GB had already qualified for the last four before their win over Canada thanks to an 8-6 win over the Russian Olympic Committee.

But their top-spot finish now gives them the supposed advantage of playing the fourth-placed USA rather than third, which incidentally would have been Canada again. Despite both teams having already qualified, it was a tense start to the round robin clash between Mouat's world silver medallists and the Canadians, led by skip Brad Gushue.

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Mouat’s quartet came out fighting again after the break, stealing one, before Canada’s 2006 gold medallist Gushue avoided a GB guard stone in the seventh to knock out a yellow and blank the end. GB then ran away with the game and there did not give