{"id":22900,"date":"2026-02-18T11:27:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=22900"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:27:54","slug":"winter-olympics-2026-team-gbs-curling-semi-final-hopes-alive-after-sensational-win-over-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=22900","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics 2026: Team GB&#8217;s curling semi-final hopes alive after sensational win over US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The inexperienced rink &#8211; with only Jen Dodds surviving from the 2022 gold-medal winning team &#8211; finished sixth in last year&#8217;s World Championships and were some way short of their best again against the Americans, with opportunities missed and mistakes made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A steal in the third end hinted that November&#8217;s European silver medallists could get the win they needed, but the US wrested back control to lead at the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A double in the sixth edged GB in front again, but the concession of three in the following end gave the Americans a lead that looked insurmountable until Morrison&#8217;s late intervention gave them a lifeline. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Once it came out of Becca&#8217;s hand I knew it was close and you see the thrill it gave us,&#8221; said skip Sophie Jackson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our performance was up and down but we&#8217;ll be back tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before then, Britain&#8217;s men will return to the ice in a similarly perilous situation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The world champions must beat the US on Wednesday (13:05) and hope either Italy or Norway lose both their final two if they are to make the medal matches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Winter #Olympics #Team #GBs #curling #semifinal #hopes #alive #sensational #win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inexperienced rink &#8211;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22901,"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\/22900"}],"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=22900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}