Winter Olympics 2026 women’s team curling: Canada suffers second straight loss to Team GB; Switzerland fall to Japan
Reigning world curling champions Canada are now 1-2 in the round robin at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 after losing 6-7 to Great Britain on Saturday (14 February).
For the second time in as many games, the Canadians, skipped by Rachel Homan, struggled for accuracy, while a hungry Team GB, hunting their first win in their title defence, were all too hungry to capitalise against the world number one side.
“It feels absolutely amazing, we said we are the best when we’re underdogs, and I think we showed that today,” last-rock thrower Rebecca Morrison told Olympics.com after.
“We came out there, and we played freely, knowing that we’re not favourites, the pressure’s not on us, and we brought our best.”
Morrison, certainly, found a form that had so far been missing from Britain’s performance at the Games.
After a single in the first, and a blanked end in the second, the Beijing 2022 Olympic champions got on the board in some style, capitalising on an erroneous double take-out attempt by Homan, for three points.
Another big final raise by Morrison in the fourth to have Britain lying one in the button just in front of a Canadian stone, left Homan in a precarious position, and ultimately unable to shift it, to give Team GB a steal of one, a 4-1 lead.
Whereas in their matches previously, the Britons struggled for consistency in the second half, this time, skip Sophie Jackson steered her team through, never allowing Canada re-entry.
Up 5-3 coming into the eighth, fourth Morrison delivered a perfect draw for a deuce to hand her foursome an even bigger advantage.
Despite attempts to build a multiple-scoring end, the Canadians were denied again, leaving the ninth with just a single point.
And at the close, the Britons stayed defensive enough to hold Canada to two, with Jackson happy to concede.
The win lifts Team GB off the bottom of the round robin standings and kickstart their title defence in earnest. On the subject of results and what it means going forward, Morrison was bullish about their chances.
“I think we know that if we can beat Team Canada, we can beat anyone here. We have beaten most of the teams here before. I think it’s just about consistency for us.
“We need to take a lot of confidence from how we just played out there, ring that tomorrow, and I think good things ahead, hopefully.”
