BBC reporter pauses mid-interview with Team GB curling stars after gold medal heartbreak
Team GB lost 9-6 to Canada in the men's curling gold medal match.
Ryan Smart
Team GB curling stars Grant Hardie and Bruce Mouat gave an emotional interview to BBC reporter JJ Chalmers after they lost the men's curling final to Canada at the Winter Olympics.
Canada secured a 9-6 victory on the 10th and final end in Cortina.
Team GB skip Mouat held the hammer and, with his final shot of the match, needed to clear two Canadian stones away from the house while keeping one of his stones inside.
The close proximity of the two yellow stones to each other, however, meant that it would have taken a near-perfect shot and angle to move both of them.
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The end result was one of the Canadian stones staying inside the house to give skip Brad Jacobs' side the gold medal, with the GB team of Mouat, third Hardie, second Bobby Lammie and lead Hammy McMillan winning silver.
While securing silver is a remarkable achievement - and Team GB's fourth medal of the 2026 Winter Olympics - Team Mouat suffered a similar devastating defeat in the 2022 final, losing 5-4 to Sweden on the final end in Beijing.
Their main goal in Cortina, therefore, was to go one better and win gold.
Minutes after the match, Mouat and Hardie stepped up for media duty with BBC - and were understandably emotional.
After asking the first question to Mouat, interviewer Chalmers decided to give the skip time and space to compose himself, and instead asked Hardie about the defeat.
"Yeah, that's why we wanted to win it, for each other," Hardie said. "The pain from four years ago was that much, we thought, 'Let's go and give a go, and give ourselves a chance'.
"So much good work to try and kind of redeem ourselves, and unfortunately we've not got there again."
Mouat added: "That's the incredible thing that we'll take away from this week, regardless from this result - the amount of people that have come out to support us, the amount of people that have messaged us from back home.
"We want people to participate in our sport, enjoy our sport, and if people take anything away from this week - as well as the silver medal - it's being able to inspire people to hopefully want to participate themselves. That's an achievement in itself, I hope."
Chalmers, who has been present on site throughout the curling tournaments, ended the interview by telling both players: "Listen, you have done that. Go and step up on that podium with a lot of pride in your hearts."