Winter Olympics live: Team GB play Canada in must-win curling game amid backdrop of cheating allegations

Place guard, knock guard. That’s the rhythm of this end at the minute.

Grant Hardie’s final stone sees GB come into the house, knock into his own yellows which spin into a red and firing it away.

Canada sit one up but GB have three in the house.

Mark Kennedy, the man accused of cheating by the Swiss last week, plays a nice thin double and takes out two of those yellows.

The house is being clustered as Great Britain try to limit Canada to just one point in this end.

Canada take out the guard to give themselves a free run at the four stones in the house if they want to take them out.

GB respond by replacing the guard and protecting their own yellows.

Canada displace the guard once more.

End three now. Something to note is that the United States trail Italy 2-1 in their match which is also taking place right now. That result will also have ramifications for Team GB’s semi-final hopes.

Britain have the opening stone and set up a guard in end three before Canada draw into the house from the right.

McMillan tries to emulate them with his second stone but leaves it a little high.

Grant Hardie plays two superb stones on his turn and gets GB to lie one with the possibility to displace more of the reds.

He’s left Bruce Mouat with some good options but they’ll be reactionary to what Canada can produce.

GB still sit one after an attempted double takeout. Mouat could curl into the house and leave Canada with the decision on what to do.

They do and Mouat fades in to leave the yellow just atop his own in the house. GB lie two, Canada have won shot let and Brad Jacobs will try to knock them both out…

… Oh he does! That’s a great shot, both yellows fly away and Canada are lying three up now. What can Mouat produce?

He needs to hit the most recent stone clear and leave one in the green which he does simply enough. GB take the one point.

End two is shaping up to be an entirely different challenge.

GB have the hammer and will want to match Canada’s two points at the very least.

With a couple of guards set, GB look to freeze a couple of stones in the house near their opponents but have limited success.

Bobby Lammie has the take out the red guard which smashes into the stones clustered in the house.

The result is Canada sitting three up with four stones left to play in the end. No yellows in the house and some thinking to do for Bruce Mouat.

A slight error from Bruce Mouat means Canada have an advantage in the end now.

He clips the only red remaining in the house but can’t knock it out. On top of that his own yellow sails away meaning that Canada have the chance to score at least two.

Mouat’s next stone is sent to the red on the right side of the house. He knocks that one free and spins into the centre of the house leaving a testing final stone to move the yellow out of the way.

If Canada push Mouat’s stone from the house they’ll score two…

… which they do! Canada take the lead.

Canada want to win more than one point in this end but things aren’t lined up the way they’d like.

A few shots come and go with plenty of stones cleared out of the house as the Canadians try to set up the end.

If they can’t win more than one point, they might to blank and regain the hammer for end two.

At present, Team GB lie one up in the house with no other stone sitting.

Canada won the last stone advantage which means they have the hammer for the first of these 10 ends.

Team GB’s Hammy McMillan sends down the first guard before responding to Canada’s first stone and curling into the green section of the house.

We’re just setting up the end at the minute with the Canadian’s drawing in and trying to freeze on top of McMillan’s second stone.

Okay then, let’s get stuck into this huge curling clash.

Great Britain need to win tonight to keep their destiny in their own hands. Should they lose things will be very difficult to reach the semi-finals.

The stands in the stadium are around three-quarters full, with plenty of fans waving flags and getting into the spirit of things. The DJ plays ‘I Like to Move It’, which goes down a treat, and gets the strobe lights going before we get into the actual serious business.