Rhona is going for a medal sweep
Armed with a broom and a dodgy knee, a Scottish housewife will today be charged with giving ailing Team GB their first whiff of a medal at these Winter Olympics. There's only one familiar old problem. First, Rhona Martin's got to beat the Germans.
The women's curling team skip knows that victory over our old adversaries in Ogden today will guarantee her all-Scottish quartet a place in Wednesday's semi-finals.
Yet she will enter the match, knowing that she has already blown a chance of booking their place in the last four, having yesterday failed to close out what would have been their sixth victory in eight games.
Going into the last end 5-3 up against America, the Brits somehow conspired to let the hosts level the game and then steal a 6-5 win on the first extra end.
Wednesday morning here is thus shaping up to make or break the British challenge, with Alex Coomber, our only World Cup champion in any winter sport, aiming to win a medal in the skeleton.
In her opening training session yesterday, an exercise in fine tuning rather than any reliable guide to form, she finished third in the first run and fifth in the second.
