Curling Mixed Doubles Winter Olympics Bronze Medal Match: How to watch Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds play, times and rules explained
Team GB could get on the medals table on Tuesday.
Tuesday (February 10) is the fourth full day of sporting action at the Winter Olympics and Scottish athletes representing Team GB are hoping for a podium place.
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 saw heartbreak for Scottish skier Kirsty Muir who came fourth in the women’s slopestyle.
And fellow Scots Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds lost to Sweden in the semi-finals of the mixed doubles curling after losing a five end - but they can still win bronze.
Here’s everything you need to know.
When are Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds playing their bronze medal match?
The bronze medal match will start at 1.05pm on Tuesday, February 10 . A mixed doubles curling match tends to last around 90 minutes, so we should know the result by around 2.30pm.
Who are Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds playing in their bronze medal match?
The Scots will be taking on home team Italy who were beaten in the other semi-final.
Where is the curling mixed doubles bronze match being played?
The match will take place at the Cortina Olympic Stadium in Cortina d’Ampezzo.
How did Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds qualify for the Winter Olympics bronze medal match?
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, 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.
They then lost Sweden in the semi-final to go into the Bronze Medal Match.
When is the mixed doubles curling final?
How can I watch the bronze medal match of the mixed doubles curling?
All the action will be available to watch on the BBC - on BBC One, the iPlayer and the Red Button.
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 eight ends and whoever has most points, or shots, at the end wins.
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