Bruce Mouat recovered from his Winter Olympics combined doubles disappointment in some type, delivering an completed show to steer his Crew GB males’s rink to a 9-4 victory of their opening match in opposition to China.
Little greater than 24 hours earlier, Mouat and Jen Dodds had faltered within the bronze-medal match within the Cortina Curling Stadium for the second successive Video games.
However the 31-year-old confirmed why he’s thought-about one of many world’s greatest, because the gold-medal favourites began strongly of their try and improve the silver they received in Beijing 4 years in the past.
The Scots, world champions in three of the previous 5 years, traded factors with China within the opening two ends, earlier than a classily compiled three within the third cleaved open a bonus that they might by no means cede.
They led 5-2 on the break, then a powerful double take-out and composed closing throw by Mouat prolonged the benefit to 8-3 after seven.
A even handed set of throws restricted the Chinese language to 1 within the eighth however GB closed down the ninth finish, taking one to power a spherical of handshakes with an finish to spare.
It at all times seemed like being a mismatch and so it proved. However a more durable check lies in wait on Thursday, when Mouat and his boys face Sweden – who beat them within the 2022 ultimate – at 13:05 GMT stay on the BBC.
