With wins in the semifinals on Thursday, Canada and Great Britain's men's curling teams will move on to play in the gold medal game at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

Jocelyn Murray, a skier who represented Great Britain at the 1956 Winter Olympics, died February 11. The death of Murray, who competed under the name Jocelyn Wardrop-Moore, was not reported in the British media until Wednesday.

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Move over Torvill and Dean. Britain has a great, new Winter Olympics pairing. Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale won the first gold medal on snow in the island country's 102-year history at the Winter Games after crossing the line in front Sunday in the wild sport of mixed snowboardcross.

Britain's men's curling team will contest the Olympic semifinals on Thursday evening after a defeat for Italy saw them scrape through to the next stage.

Her older sister, Isabel Atkin, Great Britain’s first skiing Olympic medallist, was more free-spirited. She would jump from ridiculous heights, shouting “Come on!” at her younger sister. Isabel was fearless, Atkin thought. She was fearful. She felt it intensely, even as a child.

Great Britain is the latest country to get caught up in the ongoing curling controversy at the Winter Olympics. Bobbie Lammie had a rock pulled for a

BBC Sport explores the special scheme which has taken athletes to gold medal glory in sports they had never tried before.

In a Wednesday Instagram post, British-American Olympian Gus Kenworthy flaunted a creative political message, urinating "f*** ICE" into the snow, seemingly on site at the Milano Cortina Winter Games.

The U.S. women's curling team defeated Switzerland 7-6 to advance to the semifinals of the Milan Cortina Olympics, where they will face the Swiss team again.