Jocelyn Murray, a skier who represented Great Britain at the 1956 Winter Olympics, died Feb. 11. The death of Murray, who competed under the name Jocelyn Wardrop-Moore, was not reported in the British media until Wednesday.

With wins in the semifinals on Thursday, Canada and Great Britain's men's curling teams will move on to play one another in the gold medal game of the Milan Cortina Olympics.

By Aadi Nair CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 19 (Reuters) - World champions Britain nabbed a steal of two in the final end to beat Switzerland 8-5 in a thrilling semi-final clash on Thursday in the men's curling competition at the Winter Olympics and set up a final against Canada.

Switzerland beat Italy 9-5 to move to a perfect 9-0 and as a result, Great Britain (5-4) made it into the semifinals as the fourth and final team. Mouat will take on Switzerland’s Yannick Schwaller in one of Thursday night’s semifinals.

Cortina Winter Olympics as Great Britain's men bid to reach curling final and medal hope Zoe Atkin competes in halfpipe qualification.

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Move over Torvill and Dean. Britain has a great, new Winter Olympics pairing. Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale won the first gold medal on snow in the island country's 102-year history at the Winter Games after crossing the line in front Sunday in the wild sport of mixed snowboardcross.

Britain's men's curling team will contest the Olympic semifinals on Thursday evening after a defeat for Italy saw them scrape through to the next stage.

Britain's Matt Weston leads the Olympic skeleton after two heats after a major disqualification stunned the track.

In a Wednesday Instagram post, British-American Olympian Gus Kenworthy flaunted a creative political message, urinating "f*** ICE" into the snow, seemingly on site at the Milano Cortina Winter Games.