Great Britain's chances of avoiding a first blank Winter Olympics for 30 years further diminished with yet another dismal day of results in Beijing.
Dave Ryding, the nation's first ever alpine World Cup winner, took strong medal hopes into the men's slalom but could do no better than 13th.
Eve Muirhead's curling rink, bronze medalists at Sochi in 2014, lost unexpectedly 8-4 to hosts China and now must beat Russia in their final round-robin game and rely on other results to go their way or miss out on a semi-final place.
