Great Britain’s Eve Muirhead will face Japan’s Satsuki Fujisawa in the women’s curling gold-medal game at the Beijing Olympics after both squads notched semifinal upsets on Friday.
Muirhead rallied from a 4-0 deficit after one end to beat reigning Olympic champ Anna Hasselborg of Sweden in an extra end in a wild semifinal on Friday. Muirhead scored four in the ninth to take an 11-8 lead, then gave up three to send it to an extra end.
With hammer, Muirhead got her single in the extra end for the win.
Fujisawa scored four in the fifth and edged two-time reigning world champion Silvana Tirinzoni of Switzerland 8-6 in the other semifinal.
Great Britain and Japan both finished 5-4 in round-robin play, while Switzerland was 8-1 and Sweden was 7-2.
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The final (Saturday, 8:05 p.m. ET) is a rematch of the 2018 Olympic bronze-medal game, won by Japan.
Muirhead captured Olympic bronze four years earlier in Sochi.
Hasselborg and Tirinzoni square off for bronze on Saturday at 7:05 a.m. ET.
Canada’s Jennifer Jones did not make the semifinals after finishing 5-4 in round-robin play.
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