ByRichard WintonBBC Sport in Cortina<\/p>\n
Team GB's men's curlers took a step closer to securing a Winter Olympics semi-final place as they compiled an accomplished victory over Germany.<\/p>\n
Bruce Mouat's world champions have now won four of their opening five matches in northern Italy, with six victories almost certain to guarantee a place in the last four and a shot at the medals.<\/p>\n
The Scottish quartet beat their German counterparts in both the European and the World Championships last year and were rarely in danger here.<\/p>\n
Level at 2-2 after three ends, the British rink moved smoothly into a 5-2 advantage at the interval, then accelerated clear with a further steal of two in the seventh end.<\/p>\n
Germany were floundering at that stage and, although they cut the deficit, Mouat closed out another couple in the ninth end to secure the win.<\/p>\n
The men are back on the ice later on Sunday, against the unbeaten Switzerland (18:05 GMT). <\/p>\n
Before then, the GB women will play their fourth match, with the fancied Sweden their opponents (13:05) as they try to revive their own semi-final hopes.<\/p>\n
Day-by-day guide to the Winter Olympics<\/p>\n
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Winter Olympics 2026 medal table<\/p>\n
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Winter Olympics 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 6-22 February<\/p>\n Milan-Cortina<\/p>\n Watch on iPlayer<\/a>Listen on Sounds<\/a><\/p>\n Watch two live streams and highlights on BBC iPlayer (UK only), updates on BBC Radio 5 Live and live text commentary and video highlights on the BBC Sport website and app. <\/p>\n Full coverage guide<\/a><\/p>\n GB curlers sweep aside Germany to edge closer to semisImage source, ReutersImage caption, Bruce Mouat's GB team are the reigning world championsByRichard WintonBBC Sport in CortinaPublished14 min…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Related topics<\/h2>\n
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