2026 Winter Olympics: Women’s spring shock UK to beat world champions Canada

Team GB’s women’s curlers started their campaign with an impressive first victory of these Winter Olympics, beating medal contenders Canada 7-6.

After surrendering meekly in the first two matches against China and South Korea, few would have imagined Rebecca Morrison rinking up the wrongs against the world champions.

But the British team raised their level significantly, with Morrison in particular making the shots she missed earlier in the competition, to overcome the Canadian team, which looked fragile after its loss to the United States on Friday.

“It feels absolutely amazing to go out there and get our first win,” skip Sophie Jackson told BBC Sport. “We put together the game we wanted today, we had a good first half and we continued that in the second half.”

It took until the third end for the Scottish quartet to get on the board, but after Canada’s skip Rachel Homan missed, Morrison kept her composure to go three up.

Another great shot by Morrison in the fourth period forced Homan into another foul and allowed GB to steal before they took a 4-2 lead into the break.