Mouat ready to go for gold

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- Bruce Mouat

Mouat cannot wait to battle a familiar rival in Canada as Great Britain’s men’s curling team look to upgrade their silver medal of four years ago to Olympic gold later on today.The British team looked more likely to be on a plane home on this evening than playing in the final after a patchy round-robin performance that left their hopes riding on results on Thursday morning’s final session.

But those fixtures did play in Britain’s favour and they lined up against Switzerland in the semifinals, with a fantastic triple take out from Mouat summing up the remarkable turnaround in their fortunes as they triumphed 8-5.

Mouat's side now comes up against Brad Jacob's Canadian squad, with Britain having won the majority of their meetings to date, including in last year’s world championship semifinals when Mouat's rink were playing as Scotland.