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Winter Paralympics 2026: Great Britain wheelchair curlers beat USA for second straight win


The morning session of wheelchair curling was the only sporting action at the Games on Friday, with the opening ceremony scheduled to take place in Verona from 19:00 GMT.

Great Britain’s next match in the mixed doubles is against Japan on Saturday (13:35).

Butterfield said: “It’s been quite full-on for the past couple of days so it’s nice to have a little bit of downtime.

“We’ll get a bit of recovery and might watch a bit of the opening ceremony, but we’ll make sure we’re tucked up in bed early.”

On next opponents Japan, Butterfield added: “It won’t be an easy battle. They’re the current world champions so we know they can play well.

“But we have grown into this competition and I think that’s our strength.

“In the past two games, we’ve been much more like ourselves. We’ve bounced off each other well, we’ve got good communication out there and if we play how we can play, we should do well.”

Also on Saturday, Great Britain will play twice on the first day of competition in the four-player wheelchair curling mixed team event.

They will begin against Slovakia (08:35) before facing the United States in their second round-robin match of the day (17:35).



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