Super Saturday: Team GB aim for flying finish with 10 gold medals up for grabs on penultimate day of Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics

Sliding for gold

The primary medal hopefuls for Team GB on Saturday are the lads’s curling staff, who’re on a magical run by the competitors.

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For the four-man staff, it’s been “four years of hurt” and these Games supply them the possibility at redemption.

“That silver’s not sat well with us and to get the chance to redeem ourselves is kind of what’s driven us, and hopefully we can go deliver on Saturday,” Grant Hardie informed TNT Sports.

Former Team GB roller Vicki Chalmers defined on TNT Sports that Saturday’s ultimate is the consequence of lots of onerous work.

“It’s not unfamiliar territory to the boys, and they’ve made it clear from four years ago that they were not happy with their silver medal,” Chalmers stated.

“They’ve come to this Olympic Games wanting that gold medal and that is the only colour they want, and they’re going to do everything to win that gold medal.”

McMillan able to finish enterprise in primetime

Hammy McMillan stated Team GB have “unfinished business” on the Winter Olympics forward of the ultimate, and hoped his staff would produce a “primetime” finish to the penultimate day of Milano Cortina 2026.

The quartet of McMillan, Mouat, Grant Hardie and Bobby Lammie missed out on gold at Beijing 2022 in heartbreaking vogue, as the ultimate went to an additional finish and Sweden scored one to win the medal each athlete wishes.

This time, Canada are Team GB’s foes, seeking to enhance on their bronze 4 years in the past. Their staff options Marc Kennedy, who was on the centre of the ‘double touch’ controversy, and gained gold at Vancouver 2010.

Ahead of the match, affable British lead McMillan spoke to TNT Sports, reliving the tense ultimate moments of the semi-final and explaining why his staff are so motivated to strike gold in Cortina.

“That [the last shot against Switzerland] was do or die, completely 100%,” McMillan stated. “Bruce actually wanted to play a draw and the three of were like ‘no mate, you’ve got to make this’.

“Since that Olympic ultimate in 2022, our aim has been to get again to a different ultimate as a result of we really feel like there’s unfinished enterprise within the Olympic Games, so shut final time in 2022 in Beijing, so the technique for us is to exit and luxuriate in it.

“We won’t start with the last stone, we have got to flip that hammer early, try and control the scoreboard, and at the end of the day, hopefully Bruce has got a shot for us to win that gold medal.

“Hopefully we’ve captured you, we love you guys, seen all of the messages and the superb help. It’s primetime Saturday evening TV.”

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Saturday, February 21 medal events schedule

Here’s the full schedule of the medal events on Saturday, February 21 (all times are for the UK):

Biathlon

• 13:15 – Women’s 12.5km mass begin

Bobsleigh

• 20:05 – Women’s two-woman warmth 4

Curling

• 18:05 – Men’s gold-medal recreation

Cross-country skiing

• 10:00 – Men’s 50km mass begin basic

Freestyle skiing

• 9:45 – Mixed staff aerials finals
• 12:10 – Men’s ski cross finals

Ski mountaineering

Speed skating

• 15:40 – Men’s mass begin ultimate
• 16:15 – Women’s mass begin ultimate

Final day medal hopes

If you are unable to watch Saturday’s action, there are Team GB medal hopefuls on Sunday too.

Zoe Atkin is one of the star attractions, after the women’s freeski halfpipe final was rescheduled from Saturday due to poor weather. It will now start at 9:40 UK on Sunday.

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Gu is the reigning champion in the event and has already claimed two silver medals at Milano Cortina 2026 to add to her two golds and a silver from Beijing 2022, though she only qualified in fifth place.

“At the tip of the day, they’re method up there, taking mad dangers,” Woods added. “If you aren’t totally invested and having fun with it, it’s going to be so onerous to carry out. Zoe is ticking each single field proper now.”

Team GB are also optimistic for success in the men’s four-man bobsleigh where a sled led by veteran Brad Hall – who is joined by Greg Cackett, Leon Greenwood and Taylor Lawrence – will aim to upset the apple-cart.

Hall, who has competed at the last two Winter Olympics with a best-place finish of sixth in four-man bobsleigh in Pyeongchang, and his team face a stiff test to overcome the German juggernauts who have dominated in recent years.

Saturday saw Hall and his teammates compete in the first two heats, with Team GB sitting in seventh at the halfway point of the competition.

In their first two runs, they combined for a total time of 1:49.43, just 0.82 seconds behind the German team led by driver Johannes Lochner, and 0.23 seconds behind the bronze spot.

As many predicted, the three German teams occupy all three medal spots.