Winter Olympics curling LIVE: Bruce Mouat and Team GB lose for first time against Team USA

LIVE – Updated at 05:57

Britain’s men have suffered their first defeat in the curling round robin stage, losing 9-7 to defending gold medallists Team USA.

Bruce Moaut’s men will have an opportunity to bounce back from the loss as they will be regrouping for their match against Norway later today. American snowboarding star Shaun White narrowly missed out on the podium, the three-time Olympic champion taking fourth spot in what he said was his final Games.

Meanwhile, Mikaela Shiffrin, who returned to the slopes to compete in the super-G after dramatically failing to complete runs in both the giant slalom and slalom, earned ninth spot in the race.

The three-time Olympian and two-time Olympic Alpine gold medalist finished the race 0.79 seconds behind Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami, who takes the Olympic gold medal.

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Canadian figure skater Vanessa James, who skates in the pairs event with teammate Eric Radford, is the only Black figure skater competing for any nation in Beijing.

She carries not just the hopes of Canadian and French skaters, but also Black girls and women, boys and men across the world who strain to see themselves represented on the ice and slopes during the Winter Games.

“If you don’t see yourself in the sport, how can you believe that you belong, how can you believe that you can be the best, how do you know that you can be creative or that you’ll be accepted for your uniqueness?” says James, who in 2010 was one half of the first Black French pairs skating duo with Yannick Bonheur.

There are no Black athletes competing in figure skating for the Americans this year, though the US team includes five Asian American skaters, an openly LGBTQ skater and the first gender-nonbinary skater.