Curling Mixed Doubles Winter Olympics Semi-Final: How to watch Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds play for a medal, times and rules explained
The Scottish duo are one win away from a guaranteed medal.
It’s the third full day of sporting action at the Winter Olympics and Scottish athletes representing Team GB are hoping to bag podium places.
Taking place across Lombardy and Northeast Italy until February 22, the Milano Cortina games are the 25th time the event has taken place.
A total of 2,871 athletes from 92 countries will compete in 116 events across eight sports and 16 disciplines, including the debut of ski mountaineering.
Today’s action sees Scottish skier Kirsty Muir go for gold in the women’s slopestyle, before fellow Scots Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds play in the semi-final of the mixed doubles competition.
Success will see them be guaranteed either a silver or gold medal.
Here’s everything you need to know.
When are Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds playing their semi-final?
Both semi-finals will be played at the same time, with the action starting at 5.05pm. A mixed doubles curling match tends to last between an hour and 90 minutes, so we should know the result by 6.30pm at latest.
Where is the curling mixed doubles semi-final being played?
The match will take place at the Cortina Olympic Stadium in Cortina d’Ampezzo.
Who are Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds playing in their Winter Olympics semi-final?
The Scottish pair will take on Sweden in the semi-final, who they beat 7-4 in the round robin. The other semi-final will be contested by Italy and the United States.
How did Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds qualify for the Winter Olympics semi-final?
In the Winter Olympics curling mixed doubles competition all the teams play each other in a round-robin, before the four teams with the best record advance to the semi-final.
Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds have had a near-faultless performance so far, topping the table at the end of the round robin after only losing one of their nine matches - a narrow 7-6 loss to a Switzerland duo who have since been eliminated from the competition.
How can I watch the semi-final of the mixed doubles curling?
All the action will be available to watch on the BBC - on BBC Two, the iPlayer and the Red Button.
When is the final of the mixed doubles curling?
The final will be played at 5.05pm on Tuesday, February 10.
The bronze medal game will be played earlier in the day at 1.05pm
How does Mixed Doubles Curling differ from normal curling?
In a normal game of curling there are four players on each team who throw a total of eight stones per end.
In doubles each team only throw five stones, with one player delivering the first and last stones and the other playing the middle three. The throwing order may change between ends.
Other than that the rules are the same, with the stones closest to the middle of the target counting.
Matches take place over right ends and whoever has most points, or shots, at the end wins.
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