{"id":21867,"date":"2026-02-14T20:59:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=21867"},"modified":"2026-02-14T20:59:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:59:27","slug":"winter-olympics-2026-gb-women-spring-shock-to-beat-world-champions-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=21867","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics 2026: GB women spring shock to beat world champions Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Team GB&#8217;s women curlers kickstarted their campaign with a superb first victory of these Winter Olympics, beating medal contenders Canada 7-6.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After surrendering meekly in their opening two matches against China and South Korea, few fancied Rebecca Morrison&#8217;s rink to right the wrongs against the world champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the British team raised their game significantly, with Morrison in particular making the shots that she was missing earlier in the competition, to overcome a Canadian side who looked fragile after their loss to the United States on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It just feels absolutely amazing to go out there and get our first win,&#8221; skip Sophie Jackson told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Becca played absolutely fantastically &#8211; we all did &#8211; but it&#8217;s great to see Becca when she&#8217;s like that and I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;ll be on a roll now,&#8221; Jackson added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Winter #Olympics #women #spring #shock #beat #world #champions #Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team GB&#8217;s women curlers &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}