SOCHI (Reuters) - A brilliant last shot of the final end by skip David Murdoch gave Britain a 6-5 playoff victory over Norway on Tuesday and a place in the Winter Olympics men's curling semi-finals.
Norway led by one and were lying shot but Murdoch, after taking a time out to work out every angle and consider whether to risk going for the win or playing safe to take the match into sudden-death, sent down a perfectly calculated final stone that sent another British stone ricocheting into the Norwegian counter, giving Britain two, and the match.
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