Eve Muirhead and Great Britain curling beat Switzerland/2018

Eve Muirhead and Great Britain curling beat Switzerland



Eve Muirhead kept her Olympic dream alive by snatching another narrow victory over Switzerland at the Gangneung Curling Centre.



Her Great Britain women's curling team, bronze medallists four years ago, looked to be heading for a potentially costly defeat after they dropped two shots in the ninth end to hand the Swiss the advantage.



But, faced with handing the Swiss the hammer in a pivotal extra end, Muirhead came up with a perfect stone to take two on the last and clinch an 8-7 victory.





Muirhead said: 'I could see about an inch of that stone but it's shots I practice every day and I know you can make them nine times out of 10 in practice, but you've got to make it on the big stage.'



A record of five wins from nine is generally seen as good enough to grant at least a play-off for a last four place, but Muirhead will leave nothing to chance when her team return to the ice against Japan on Tuesday. 



'We know what our job is now, we've got to get a couple more wins on the board so we have to keep on playing well and generating those chances for ourselves.'