It was a glorious day of curling for Team GB on Day 13 as Team Mouat guaranteed they will come away with at least a silver medal while Team Muirhead narrowly made it into the top four.
Bruce Mouat's rink beat USA 8-4 in the semi-final and go for gold against Sweden on Saturday while Eve Muirhead's team will face the same nation in their semi-final on Friday.
Here's what happened on Day 13
Team Mouat march into gold medal match
Team Muirhead creep into semi-finals
Atkin and Kenworthy heading for halfpipe finals
Smeding smashes British female Olympic record
Day 14: Third Olympic semi for Muirhead and Atkin final
TEAM MOUAT GO FOR GOLD
Bruce Mouat’s history boys banked at least an Olympic silver medal for Team GB and will go for curling gold against Sweden on Saturday.
"I'm so excited to be able to share this moment with the guys. That celebration at the end was just pure elation."@BruceMouat 💬 #TeamGB | #Beijing2022 pic.twitter.com/NvPfnSVnM3
— Team GB (@TeamGB) February 17, 2022
Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan outgunned reigning Olympic champions USA 8-4 in a titanic semi-final tussle.
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Victory secured Britain’s third men’s Olympic curling medal and first since silver at Sochi 2014 - won by David Murdoch, who watched on proudly from the bench as head coach.
On point 🎯@BruceMouat delivering the final shot in the 5th end to give @TeamMouat the lead 🥌#TeamGB | #Beijing2022 pic.twitter.com/9Js5yg2Z9S
— Team GB (@TeamGB) February 17, 2022
Earlier in the day, Mouat's men had beaten Canada 5-2 to assure they had last stone advantage courtesy of topping the round robin standings with eight wins and one defeat, to the US, which they soon avenged.
Read more about the men's curling here
MUIRHEAD MIRACURL AS WOMEN MAKE SEMIS
Team Muirhead qualified for the women’s curling semi-finals in dramatic style after they beat the Russian Olympic Committee 9-4 and other results went their way across the final round robin games.
Into the semi-finals 🙌@Team_Muirhead have reached the final four!#TeamGB | #Beijing2022 pic.twitter.com/D7TIOUarsG
— Team GB (@TeamGB) February 17, 2022
But a win for Switzerland over Japan and Sweden’s victory over Korea saw Team GB sneak into the top four by the barest of margins, earning a shot at a medal, and knocking powerhouses Canada out.
It came down to the draw shot challenge, which takes place before every game and rewards teams closest to the button, with Team GB edging above Japan into third by less than a centimetre.
Read more about the women's curling here
HALFPIPE HEROES HEAD FOR FINAL
Zoe Atkin may have forgotten to set an alarm for the morning of her freeski halfpipe qualifying but her timing was spot on when she finally had her skis on.
The 19-year-old qualified fourth for tomorrow's final and will aim to emulate her sister Izzy who won slopestyle bronze in PyeongChang.
In the men's competition, Gus Kenworthy snuck into the final after qualifying in the 12th and final spot, recovering from a fall on his first attempt.
Freeski halfpipe final...confirmed!
— Team GB (@TeamGB) February 17, 2022
See you there @guskenworthy 🙌🙌#TeamGB | #Beijing2022 pic.twitter.com/vEdpTgob6K
Read more about the halfpipe qualifying here
SUPER SMEDING SMASHES NEW GROUND
Ellia Smeding is confident of climbing the world rankings beyond Beijing after producing Team GB’s best ever Olympic result for a female speed skater.
⛸ @ellia_smeding brings her Olympic debut to a close with a 23rd place finish in the women’s 1000m.#TeamGB | #Beijing2022 pic.twitter.com/MPI2agCxHp
— Team GB (@TeamGB) February 17, 2022
Smeding finished 23rd in the women’s 1000m with a time of 1:17.17, 3.98 seconds behind Japanese gold medal winner and new Olympic record holder Miho Takagi.
It is the best result for a British woman since Mandy Horsepool's 26th in the 3000m at Lake Placid 1980 when she equalled the efforts of Trish Tripper in the same event in 1968.
Read more about the speed skating here
DAY 14: MUIRHEAD MANIA AND ATKIN ANTICIPATION
Eve Muirhead has the chance to win her second Olympic curling medal and guarantee at least silver in a semi-final tussle against Sweden.
The 31-year-old guided her rink through a rip-roaring final day of round robin action as they qualified in third place by virtue of Draw Shot Challenge.
Now Sweden lie in wait, the team that beat Muirhead in the semi-finals at the last Olympics.
Meanwhile, Zoe Atkin fuelled hope of a freeski halfpipe medal charge with an excellent qualification run that saw her advance in fourth place.
Zoe’s sister Izzy won Britain’s first-ever Olympic medal on snow in 2018 and the younger sibling dropped into the Beijing halfpipe to announce similar intentions.
The 19-year-old qualified in fourth place with a best score of 86.75 which, if she can match or better in Friday’s final, represents a podium-level run.
Mica McNeill and Montell Douglas begin their bid for British bobsleigh history with the start of the two-woman competition.
McNeill's aim is to improve on the eighth place she secured at PyeongChang 2018 alongside Mica Moore, Britain's best ever result in women's bobsleigh.
Douglas becomes the first woman to represent Team GB in both Summer and Winter Olympics having competed in the 100m on the track at Beijing 2008.
Speed skater Cornelius Kersten ends his landmark first Olympic appearance with the 1000m - his favoured event.
Kersten finished ninth in the 1000m at a World Cup event at Stavanger, Britain’s best-ever result on the sport’s top-level circuit.
And former junior world champion Ollie Davies represents Britain in the ski cross event.
Davies became the first British skier to reach the final at the World Championships in the discipline last year, finishing fourth.