Mouat and the Swiss skip ­Yannick Schwaller have a rivalry that runs right back to their matches in the World Junior Championships a decade ago. View image in fullscreen Bruce Mouat on the tense final end against Switzerland which Britain won to seal the passage into Saturday’s final. Howard has built this middling Swiss team into the machine that was unbeaten in the round-robin stage of these Olympics. They came a couple of inches away from doing it, which seemed pretty unlikely when the US team were 6-3 up on the Swiss going into the 10th end. But the Swiss skip pulled off an improbable shot to equalise the game with the very final stone.

Source: The Guardian February 19, 2026 22:02 UTC