{"id":13429,"date":"2026-02-19T22:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/13429\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:57:08","slug":"great-britains-mens-curling-team-beat-switzerland-to-reach-olympic-final-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/13429\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Britain\u2019s men\u2019s curling team beat Switzerland to reach Olympic final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s men\u2019s curling team are guaranteed at least a silver medal after an 8-5 victory over Switzerland in the Olympic semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Mouat\u2019s side had faced a nervous wait to see if they would make the semi-final cut, with Italy\u2019s defeat at the hands of the Swiss on Thursday morning sealing Britain\u2019s place in the line up.<\/p>\n<p>When the two sides met in the round-robin stage, it took an extra end to separate them, with Switzerland prevailing but Britain had come out top at last year\u2019s world championships.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GB PROGRESS TO GOLD MEDAL MATCH \ud83e\udd29\ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n<p>A very tight game ends 8-5 to GB against Switzerland \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7<\/p>\n<p>Saturday night\u2026 here we come! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamGB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TeamGB<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MilanoCortina2026?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#MilanoCortina2026<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z6X7oe1Dmj\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/z6X7oe1Dmj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Team GB (@TeamGB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamGB\/status\/2024595227441291683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In what was an incredibly tight match, a point steal in the sixth end for Britain changed the momentum, while a triple take out from Mouat in the seventh limited the Swiss to just one.<\/p>\n<p>Two points in the eighth saw Britain edge in front for first time and another two-point score in the 10th sealed the win.<\/p>\n<p>Britain will now face Canada in the gold medal match on Saturday evening, looking to upgrade the silver they won in Beijing four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Hammy McMillan Jr said: \u201cWe had to really fight extremely hard in that game. We started off pretty slow and the Swiss guys really took advantage of that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771541708060_2.jpg--.jpg\" width=\"640\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen we regrouped at half-time, we spoke about the changing ice conditions and how we needed to pull the stone slightly different and how we adapted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came out and I guess we got a little miss in the sixth end by Benoit (Schwarz-van Berkel) which gave us that steal of one in the sixth to I guess really flip the switch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen Bruce played that absolutely incredible run back triple I guess, to save our bacon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mouat felt his crucial shot in the seventh end, which prevented the Swiss team from scoring multiple points, would rank as one of the best of his career.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cDefinitely up there (as one of my best). I think one of the best shots in a pressured situation, definitely up there and one of the best I\u2019ve ever played in a pressure cooker, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust to make shots like that in a situation like we were in, it\u2019s what dreams\u2026or what I\u2019ve dreamt of for a long, long time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be able to do that for myself and for the guys, it felt like this is now our time to go and like push forward and go and win this game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s hopes had been left hanging by a thread following a defeat at the hands of Canada on Tuesday evening and Mouat admitted it had been a rollercoaster of emotions over the day.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cHonestly, it was just the most incredible week. It\u2019s not gone all our way and we knew that this morning we might not be playing again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771541708060_1.jpg--.jpg\" width=\"640\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, so many emotions have happened today and it was a wee bit overwhelming in the moment to realise that we had won.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had that shot, that very tough shot to maybe only get one and when he missed it, it was just kind of like, you know, a wee bit of like, \u2018holy bad word\u2019, this is actually happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so, very, very proud of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>          <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s men\u2019s curling team are guaranteed at least a silver medal after an 8-5 victory over Switzerland in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5477,6107,9833,4695,17,2352],"class_list":{"0":"post-13429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-curling","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-hammy-mcmillan-jr","11":"tag-milano-cortina-winter-olympics","12":"tag-switzerland","13":"tag-winter-olympics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}