Winter Olympics 2022 - ‘Gutted’: Team GB’s Mouat and Dodds vow to return strongly for team events after doubles pain

Team GB curlers Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds have promised to pick themselves up and go again in the men’s and women’s team competitions, after missing out on Winter Olympic bronze in the mixed doubles. The world champions were thrashed 9-3 by Sweden, who won with two ends to spare. The damage was done in the second and third ends, which their opponents took by four and three stones respectively.

Ad/> Mouat will try to rebound when he skips the men’s team — the world silver medallists, while Dodds joins her European Championship winner women’s team, which again has Eve Muirhead at the helm. /> Beijing 2022'Too much' — Team GB come up short in curling as Sweden take mixed doubles bronze27 MINUTES AGO «It's pretty raw. We're obviously very gutted.

We've put in a lot of effort in the last two months to get to this point,” said Mouat. »We're gutted to leave this tournament without a medal because we felt we were in the form to win one." «We did everything we wanted to park it and reset. That loss last night was going to be hard,” said Dodds, referring to the semi-final defeat to Norway — which they had led at the halfway point, before a wayward sixth end.

/> »This morning we both felt pretty good and we knew a medal was still up for grabs. We wouldn't have changed anything we did over the last 12 hours or so. «We tried to bounce back as hard as we could but unfortunately today wasn't our day.» Beijing 2022 Olympic Games: Schedule, big names, key events and more Heartbreak for Team GB as Sweden secure bronze in mixed doubles Mouat and his men’s team begin their campaign against Italy on Thursday (0605 GMT), and he has promised to come out firing.