Winter Olympics: Sweden v Team GB in women’s curling semi-final – live!

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Rolling report: Eve Muirhead’s team look to match the men’s crew with a final place, with ice hockey and bobsleigh coming up. Join Luke McLaughlin.

Sweden take a 4-0 lead after the first end. That’s a real shocker for Great Britain’s hopes of making the final. They look suitably stony-faced, if you’ll pardon the pun. They need to dig deep here.

A very poor start from Great Britain in the curling, to be perfectly honest. The latest stone is short, and doesn’t even make the house. This could be a four-point lead for Sweden, right out of the gate, if GB are not careful.

The first teams are speeding down the course in the two-woman bobsleigh. And over in the mixed pairs figure skating, the USA team of Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier currently top the charts, with a score of 74.23. Japan second (70.85), Georgia third (66.11).

Sweden well in control of the first end. Four Swedish stones crowd the centre. Now it’s three ... Eve Muirhead is having a look at how GB can knock one or two of these away.

Hello again everyone. Here we go then. Great Britain’s women in action against Sweden in the curling semi-final. Great Britain will be using the yellow stones, Sweden the red. It’s a shaky opening to the match from Hailey Duff, who misses the Swedish stone for starters.

The only live event going on at present is the pairs figure skating short program, where the USA’s Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier are the early leaders. The curling semi-finals are coming up any moment, though – with Team GB facing Sweden and Japan v Switzerland – as is the first run of the two-woman bobsleigh.

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