Team GB curlers ‘gutted’ and ‘hurt’ despite securing first medal of Winter Olympics, as Sweden edge gold medal match and leave Great Britain with silver – ‘Right now it kind of sucks’

Great Britain were made to settle for a silver medal after losing their Olympic men's curling final 5-4 to Sweden in an extra end at the National Aquatics Centre in Beijing.

Forced to try an ambitious effort to salvage an unlikely win against the hammer, Bruce Mouat's attempted take-out missed by inches to give Swedish skip Niklas Edin his first Olympic crown.

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Mouat's men were never in front after losing two in the second end, but nevertheless the 27-year-old and his team of Hammy McMillan, Bobby Lammie, Grant Hardie and alternate Ross Whyte can take solace in becoming Britain's first medallists of the Games.

It was a thoroughly impressive display by Edin, a former soldier in the Swedish army with five world titles to his name, who was under pressure in Beijing to land the one major title that still eluded him.

An emotional Lammie told BBC Sport: "I don't know what to say. Personally I wasn't at my best today. I'm gutted for the boys.

"I think we fought back well in the second half, gave ourselves position and couldn't quite get over the line. Right now it hurts."

McMillan added: "We've had a good week, it's not how we wanted to end it but we'll look back at this and we'll be proud.

"Right now it kind of sucks."

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