Great Britain's mixed doubles curling pair Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat opened their Winter Olympics campaign with an 8-6 victory over Norway, despite a power cut that briefly halted play. The match, a rematch of their semi-final at Beijing 2022, saw the Scottish duo take control after a tight first half.
Team GB led 4-3 at the break, but Norway pegged them back before Dodds produced a superb shot in the sixth end to win three points and seize the initiative. “It was a very back-and-forth game,” said Dodds. “It took us a minute to figure out one side of the ice was curling more than the other. We took the other side and had a lot better control.”
Four minutes into play, all four games stopped when a power outage hit the Olympic Ice Stadium. Bruce Mouat took the disruption in his stride, joking: “I didn’t mind the lights going off. It was a bit of a boogie, a rave … it was like a nightclub.” Lights soon returned and the match resumed.
Norway narrowed the gap using a power play, but Mouat and Dodds responded in the final end to seal victory. The result sets them up well for Thursday’s match against Estonia, who lost 9-7 in an extra end to Switzerland on their Olympic debut.
