Winter Olympics live: Sweden’s Wrana siblings star to take down USA and win mixed curling gold
Sweden’s brother-and-sister pair Rasmus and Isabella Wrana battled from behind to beat the USA in the mixed doubles gold medal match
Sweden’s brother-and-sister pair Rasmus and Isabella Wrana defeated the USA to win mixed doubles curling gold with the very last stone of a thrilling final, after Great Britain narrowly missed out on bronze in the third-place match.
Isabella Wrana, the star of the week, struck the winning blow to edge a tight battle 5-4 against the USA’s Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse. The USA settled for silver, having beaten reigning champions Italy 9-8 in the semi-finals.
Earlier, Team GB’s Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds narrowly missed out on Olympic bronze as they were beaten 5-3 by Italy. Mouat and Dodds also finished fourth in the Beijing Olympics four years ago.
Elsewhere, US skier Lindesy Vonn issued an update on her condition from hospital after suffering a broken leg in Sunday’s downhill crash just nine days after she ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).
Late on Monday, the 41-year-old wrote on Instagram that she has “no regrets” about competing even though her “Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would”.
Follow all the latest updates from Milano-Cortina 2026 in our live blog below:
Winter Olympics 2026: Schedule in full and day-by-day events
Here’s the rundown of events tomorrow in Italy:
Day 5 (Wednesday 11 February 2026) – 8 gold medal events
Alpine skiing
- 10.30am–12.50pm: Men's super-G 🏅
Biathlon
- 1.15pm–3.10pm: Women's 15km individual 🏅
Curling
- 6.05pm–9.05pm: Men's round robin 1
Figure skating
- 6.30pm–10.15pm: Ice dance free dance 🏅
Freestyle skiing
- 10am–10.45am: Women's moguls qualification second round
- 1.15pm–2.35pm: Women's moguls final (depending on light situation) 🏅
Ice hockey
- 3.40pm–6.10pm: Men's preliminary round
- 8.10pm–10.40pm: Men's preliminary round
Luge
- 4.30pm–7.40pm: Men's doubles runs 1 and 2 🏅 Women's doubles runs 1 and 2 🏅
Nordic combined
- 9am–9.45am: Men's individual Gundersen normal hill ski jumping
- 12.45pm–1.35pm: Men's individual Gundersen normal hill 10km 🏅
Snowboarding
- 9.30am–11.30am: Women's snowboard halfpipe qualification
- 6.30pm–8.30pm: Men's snowboard halfpipe qualification
Speed skating
- 5.30pm–7pm: Men's 1000m 🏅
Winter Olympics 2026: How to watch every event online and on TV
How can I watch the Winter Olympics?
Viewers in the UK and Ireland will be able to watch more than 850 hours of action across every sport, venue and medal event on TNT Sports and streaming service discovery+.
Coverage starts from £3.99/month in the U.K and €4.99/month in Ireland on discovery+, with access to TNT Sports 2 and other live event feeds.
Live competition coverage will run from 9am to 10pm, with an hour-long studio show previewing the day’s events from 8am and an end-of-day round-up once live sporting action is complete.
Winter Olympics 2026: How to watch every event online and on TV
Winter Olympics 2026 medal table: Full standings as wait continues for Team GB
Norway are historically the most successful nation in the Winter Games and the Norwegians are once again favourites to top the medal table, having claimed 16 golds in Beijing four years ago, four more than second-placed Germany.
The USA are expected to put up a strong challenge to Norway’s dominance, while Germany and Canada are also expected to enjoy plenty of success. Host nation Italy are also hopeful of a top-10 finish in the standings, as are their Alpine neighbours France and Switzerland.
Britain have set a target of winning four to eight medals this time around, which would be a huge improvement on a disappointing haul of only two in China in 2022.
Here are the latest standings from Milan-Cortina 2026:
Winter Olympics 2026 medal table: Full standings as wait continues for Team GB
Old ghosts haunt Mouat and Dodds as Olympic mixed doubles medal eludes them
History repeated itself in brutal fashion for mixed doubles curlers Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds, who lost the bronze medal match for a second Olympics in succession.
The pair swept through the round-robin stage, winning eight of their nine matches, and were the top seeds heading into the all-important knockouts.
But that excellent form deserted the 2021 world champions at the worst possible time. First came a 9-3 hammering at the hands of Sweden’s Rasmus and Isabella Wranaa, who they had beaten 7-4 in the round robin, in Monday’s semi-final.
Old ghosts haunt Mouat and Dodds as Olympic mixed doubles medal eludes them
Sweden win Mixed Doubles curling final!
Sweden win Mixed Doubles curling final!
“Sweden didn't start the tournament well but they've just grown and grown. We've got to give all the kudos to Isabella Wrana,” says four-time Olympic curler Jackie Lockhart on BBC.
“She [Wrana] has been absolutely fantastic. There is applause from the US team. They were outplayed but Isabella Wrana has stood tall and strong,” added commentator Steve Cram.
Sweden win Mixed Doubles curling final!
Dropkin’s last stone, and it slides by the button but settles outside! “Ah, shoot!” he says as he looks to the sky.
Rasmus Wrana has his final shot next before his sister and Thiesse take the final shots of the final end. He lands in the house but not in scoring range (yet anyway).
What can Thiesse serve up with the final shot for the US?
It doesn’t fall well, leaving two Swedish reds inside the house alongside just one American yellow.
So, can Isabella Wrana take two to win it for Sweden?
She can! SWEDEN WIN GOLD!
The final shot takes the US stone out of the house and Sweden wrap up the gold!
Mixed Doubles curling final: USA 5-4 Sweden
Into the eighth and final end then, and Sweden have the hammer.
Thiesse brings her first stone on point into the button, though Wrana follows up by doing the same.
Second shot from Thiesse lands a little short but it’s in the house after some great sweeping from Dropkin.
Rasmus Wrana lands his first shot alongside Thiesse’s stone.
Dropkin up again with the third shot for the US. 2:15 on the shot clock...the stone knocks one red away but does the other red stone a favour.
How can Sweden respond with their third shot? They have a little more time on the clock. Wrana looks to set it up for his sister, and covers their stone in the button.
It’s finely poised!
Mixed Doubles curling final: USA 5-4 Sweden
The US use their power play in the seventh and final end.
Not great on the first shots but Sweden get into the button before Wrana knocks out a US stone.
The US reply but taking the Swedish stone out of the button, though Wrana can’t reply with their penultimate shot.
Dropkin produces a great penultimate shot to knock Sweden out of the house ahead of the final shots.
Isabella Wrana replies by knocking two yellow stones out of the house though!
Thiesse with the final stone of the seventh end...she knocks out that final Swedish stone and the US take two points!
Into the lead ahead of the last end!
Mixed Doubles curling final: USA 3-4 Sweden
Sweden have the hammer again and the power play is on in the sixth end.
Both in the house but nothing in the button after the first three shots.
Much more tactical once again, each side knocking the other out as they come into their final two shots.
USA trying to limit Sweden’s options with their final shot, Thiesse finding the button to make it interesting.
But Sweden get in by a few centimetres to take a single point!
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