Curlers are required to put together winning run

David Murdoch admitted Great Britain's curling team face a must-win run to rescue their Olympic gold bid after suffering a 4-3 defeat against Switzerland.

Murdoch, Ewan MacDonald, Pete Smith and Euan Byers, among the favourites for the gold medal, have had a stuttering start to their round robin competition with two defeats in three matches.

Now Murdoch acknowledges they cannot afford too many more losses if they are to reach the last four.

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"Another loss and we're on the back foot so it's win and win from now on," he said.

"We can't really drop many more. That's two bad ones we've lost already."

Britain were due to play a Denmark team late last night that lost its first two games but bounced back with the enthusiastic support of the majority of the 5,600 fans to beat the United States 7-6 in extra ends.

"I don't think we're doing anything wrong, sometimes you just don't get the breaks," Murdoch said.

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"We've got to take confidence in the fact we are playing well. We've just got to regroup and make sure we win. All we can do is try and win our games."

Great Britain's Chemmy Alcott was lying in 18th place after the downhill section of the women's super-combined competition at Whistler.

Alcott, ranked eighth in the World Cup combined standings, got to the bottom without problems and clocked 1:27.06 but was not happy with her position heading into her less favoured section of the event.

Following her commendable performance in the women's downhill on Wednesday, Alcott was left a little disappointed by her off-the-pace performance which virtually ends her hopes of a top 10 finish.

Alcott said: "It wasn't ideal. I was trying to be aggressive today but I was just catching everywhere."