Winter Olympics live: Team GB curlers lose to Canada leaving medal hopes hanging by a thread

Team GB shake hands as they trail by four points with one end to go.

It’s another defeat and their semi-final place is looking very far away now.

A decent effort for Mouat to freeze a yellow on top of the left sitting red.

Jacobs aims for the front red and wants to take out the middle yellow.

He releases the stone with some force and is successful in the aim.

Canada lie two and Mouat has another tasking shot to score more than one.

His only option is to try a takeout on the front red. He’s off target and ends up giving up anothe point!

GB are trying to protect the two yellows.

Hardie looks to sit his final stone on top of the other two but it’s slightly too hard.

The nudge opens up a chance for Canada to take out all three yellows!

‘Give it a bomb on the nose!’ is the call to Brad Jacobs.

One, maybe two, yellows fly out of the ring but there are too many reds for Mouat to handle.

‘We’re only getting two max’ is the assessment from Mouat.

Kennedy’s second stone is a takeout aimed at the front yellow. He’s hoping to displace two yellows but jams the connected one into the other two.

Two yellows remain in the house.

Britain take a timeout to discuss how to play this with the coach…

GB start off by putting in the guards on the centre as Canada send stones into the house.

Lammie curls his first stone onto the clustered reds and nudges them apart.

Now is the time to put stones into the house. Lammie comes again and draws in from the left. He’s a little too long but manages to leave a yellow in amongst it.

Canada try to take out the final guard and displace a second yellow as well.

No! Kennedy just takes out the guard.

This is grave for Team GB.

They are hanging on to their hopes of reaching the semi-finals but are facing a fourth defeat of the round robin stage here.

What can they muster of the final two ends?

Canada have forced Mouat’s hand and he’ll need to draw into the green area to take one.

He tries to play off the right side red and spin into the middle but he hits it on the nose.

Worse still, Canada are closer to the middle meaning they score one and increase their lead!

Great Britain need to blank or score two from this end.

It looks highly unlikely at this stage.

They’re discussing freezing on top of the right side red or possibly drawing in behind the middle red to leave a testing final shot for Jacobs.

Mouat decides with the second option and gets it all wrong. He ends up too short and Canada have the chance to lie four up with one stone left.

Hardie takes on the shot that Lammie just messed up.

It’s a decent effort but there’s enough wiggle room for Canada to power it out of the house.

They may disrupt their own stones though.

Kennedy is told to catch the yellow on the left side, he likes his stone and smokes it out of the house. With it go two reds which could have been used as backing for future shots.