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Jackie Lockhart
Four-time Olympic curler on ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV

Sweden are going to have to chase and after that we just need to keep eliminating the reds.

Sweden go with a couple of corner guards as they look to divert British eyes out wide before steaming through the front door.

Nothing extravagant, girls. Keep it sensible. Do not get drawn into a saloon-style shoot-out.

Pah, they don't need me to tell them.

Charles Commins: What a shot from Eve Muirhead!

Case Eames: Yes Eve!!! What a shot!

Mel Scrivin: Eve 'The Wizard' Muirhead. Wow.

Steve Cram
Curling commentator on ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV

Eve Muirhead clenches her fist, what a shot from Eve Muirhead!

Absolutely perfect, could not have gone any better.

EVE MUIRHEAD!! Ice runs through her veins.

The British skip nails her final stone, playing a perfect plant to score four - yes, FOUR - in the penultimate end.

While everyone else in the arena - and back home - whoops and hollers in excitement, Muirhead quietly clenches her fist.

Still work to do.

Anna Hasselborg's final stone. Damage limitation it seems...

Not bad, not bad. She pushes a British stone out but, according to our experts, still leaves Britain with a shot for FOUR...

Good job the curlers aren't as stressy as us. Ice runs through their veins.

Hasselborg's stone doesn't curl as much as she'd hope, leaving Muirhead deciding to take out a Swedish guard further north.

Five British stones lurk in the four-foot with that one Swedish red crashing the party.

This looks to be a big British score coming up...

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Mica McNeill and Montell Douglas are done for the day at the National Sliding Centre.

They lie 19th out of 20 pairs, 2.49 seconds off German leaders Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi.

That is disappointing considering McNeill finished eighth in this event at PyeongChang and in the same position at the 2020 World Championships.

There are another two runs tomorrow.

Kate: I should not find curling this stressful. A situation not helped by a POWERCUT in the 9th end! I might be about to find out if I have a weak heart! I might also be a tad dramatic…

Jackie Lockhart
Four-time Olympic curler on ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV

This has really turned out into such a great great game.

Sweden's Sarah McManus follows suit, adding another body into an already crowded room.

Vicki Wright's final throw leaves five British stones in the four-foot zone, surrounding a lone Swedish straggler.

Down to the skips. Imagine Anna Hasselborg will be looking to shift one or two Brits...

Another excellent stone from Britain. Vicki Wright ploughs another yellow into the centre. Five British stones outnumber two Swedish rocks and leave Team GB in a good position.

Steve Cram
Curling commentator on ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV

That's worked out well, that worked out very well. No wonder Jen Dodds is smiling.

Lots of deliberation between the Brits. Arguments and counter arguments are put forward.

The British coach comes down to adjudicate. He seems to agree with Eve Muirhead's instruction.

"We're in such a good position. Let's make sure we kill this. Flop it in."

That's what Jen Dodds does, bolstering the British defence line.

Britain have the hammer in this ninth end. There are 10 ends remember. If it is level after 10 then we go to extra ends.

This end isn't gong to be blank. Looks like a game of Connect Four in there.

Red and yellow stones are tightly packed.

The Brits want some additional pause for thought and call a time out...

Mark Burt: We need Eve to be the calm in this particular storm.

Rhona Howie
Olympic gold medallist curler on ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV

It will be a battle of wills here, battle of tactics.

These two teams know each other inside out. Wonder if that has effect on the final two ends? Who predicts best what the other does? Or who comes up with a surprise play?

So interesting. And tense, obviously.

Thomas Duncan
´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland in Beijing

Is curling ever not tense?