Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds vowed to regroup for their mixed doubles curling bronze medal match after a nail-biting semi-final defeat to Sweden.
The Team GB pair were in excellent form throughout the round robin phase but were unable to replicate it against the brother-and-sister combination of Rasmus and Isabella Wranaa.
They were beaten 9-3 in a tight and tense match, with the sixth end proving decisive.
Team GB strayed with a couple of stones and the Wranaa siblings, who both finished with above 90% shot success rate, took advantage.
They scored five points to effectively seal their place in the gold medal match against USA, while Team GB face Italy for bronze on Tuesday.
“Obviously, it’s not the result we were after,” Dodds said. “I think we’re both just disappointed we didn’t play like we have all week.
“In an Olympic semi-final you can’t do that and the Swedes capitalised on our mistakes. We were punished for it tonight.”
A valiant effort, but Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat are defeated 9-3 by Sweden in the semi final.
— Team GB (@TeamGB) February 9, 2026
They now compete in the bronze medal match at 1.05pm GMT tomorrow 🥉#TeamGB | #MilanoCortina2026 pic.twitter.com/h9K72bhnN7
Mouat and Dodds are hoping to avoid a repeat of the last Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, when they finished fourth.
They arrived then as world champions and favourites for gold but lost twice in the knock-out rounds.
In Cortina, their form has been excellent and Dodds, in particular, was having the week of her career.
The hand of Dodds had delivered time and again, and she was as deadly with the hammer — curling jargon for the last stone of an end — as Thor swinging his Mjölnir.
With a bagpipe band playing the usual tunes outside and more than a few Union flags in the stands, this felt more like Stirling than Cortina as the crowds gathered, but Sweden refused to be overawed.
They stole the first end against to take a 1-0 advantage but Mouat and Dodds kept pace.
An outstanding stone at the end of the fifth end from Dodds, where she knocked two Swedish stones out of the rings, made the score 3-3. However, the match turned in the sixth end when the Swedish pair won five points against the hammer to effectively seal the win.
"We’re really gutted,” Mouat said.
“We’ve had such a good week, and it was quite exciting for us to go into this game feeling the way we were feeling.
“But to come out and not even play close to the way we wanted to is hard to put into words really.
“They were the better team today. We don’t want this to affect our chances of a medal, so we’ll speak about the things that need to be spoken about and corrected and we’ll come out firing."