Winter Olympics: Great Britain's women's curlers to play for curling gold

The women's curling team from Great Britain will play for the gold medal after edging past Sweden 12-11 in an extra end.

British skip Eve Muirhead scored four in the ninth end for an 11-8 lead, but Swedish skip Anna Hasselborg scored three with her last stone to win the game.

Britain won the decider with their last stone.

They will face Japan in the final.

The men's team will play Sweden in the gold medal match on Saturday.

The British team will end the Olympics with at least two medals, which is good news for them because they had feared there would be no podium finishes.

She was determined to win the gold medal that had been elusive to her after finishing third in the women's snowboard slopestyle in the previous Olympics, and fourth in the snowboard slopestyle in the previous Olympics, after carrying the flag for the British team.

She will get the chance to follow in the footsteps of Rhona Howie, who won the gold medal in Salt Lake City 20 years ago.

A tap shot from the British skip in the last end gave them a four and a three-score lead.

The Swedish rink got the better of them at this stage of the last Olympics, and looked to have ruined the party with the last stone.

It was a perfect take out by Hasselborg that made it 11-11 and gave him a chance to save the match.

Britain had the last-stone advantage and were able to keep the house wide open to ensure a crucial final score of one for victory.