Britain lose to hosts and fail to make semi-finals

Britain, skipped by 19-year-old Eve Muirhead, needed to win and hope other results went in their favour to have any chance of making the semi-finals.

They were tied at 5-5 going into the final end but the Canadians had the hammer and only needed to clear out Muirhead's final stone to secure a point for victory.

Britain were left with a round robin record of three wins and six defeats and after winning three of their opening four matches they faded, losing their last five on the trot.

Britain's hopes of a curling medal now rest on the men's team skipped by David Murdoch.

Jackie Lockhart had words of consolation for Muirhead whose Olympic debut ended in disappointment.

"It's a huge learn for her and hopefully she'll recover from this and move on because she has so many years in front of her," said the 44-year-old veteran of the British team.

"She's got fantastic potential and it will stand her in great stead."

As she had been following the defeat to Denmark on Monday, British skip Muirhead was again prepared to take the blame for the defeat to the Canadians.

"I missed a few crucial draws out there that let us down but I think we definitely got our heads held high and went back out there and fought for two in the ninth end and got the steal in the 10th end," Muirhead said.

"I thought we'd won the game. A foot less and we would have won the game but (Canada's) Cheryl (Barnard) is playing fantastic out there and I'm sure she's going to be the team to beat out there.

"Yes, we're gutted we lost that game and it would have been fantastic to end on a high but it just didn't come off."

Though disappointed, the 19-year-old skip was also able to look at the campaign overall from a wider perspective.

"We didn't want to end here on three (wins) and six (defeats). That's not what we came to do but we did and that's gutting," Muirhead said.

"I'm a bit of a perfectionist out there on the ice and I get annoyed if little shots don't come off. I put the blame on myself because there were a lot of shots that I should be making and they didn't come off.

"You feel really bad, that you've let the team down and let a lot of people at home down but at the end of the day, it's just another championships, no one died.

"Hopefully for myself, only 19 years old, you can look forward and hopefully have many more to come."