Men’s team edge tense semi-final battle 8-5
They go for gold in Saturday’s final against Canada
Great Britain’s men’s team will play for the curling gold on Saturday night against Canada, after they beat Switzerland 8-5 in an extraordinarily tense semi-final.
The team, who only scraped through the round-robin stage because the Italian team lost to the Swiss earlier in the day, had promised that they would be an entirely different proposition if they got to the knockout rounds and they were as good as their word. The Swiss had won all nine games they had played coming into this semi-final, but were soundly beaten by Bruce Mouat and his team of Grant Hardie, Hammy McMillan and Bobby Lammie.
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