Eve Muirhead is resolutely confident that her rink can progress from the women's curling round robin despite defeat to Korea - after all they've been here before.
Few have as much experience as Team Muirhead’s skip, Team GB’s flagbearer at the Opening Ceremony of her fourth Olympic Winter Games, and she is no stranger to turning things around when it matters most.
To rubber stamp their place at these very Games, Muirhead, Jen Dodds, Vicky Wright, Hailey Duff and alternate Mili Smith had to bounce back from a shock defeat to Turkey in the Olympic Qualifying Event, before launching a supreme winning streak to book their plane tickets to the Chinese capital.
Today, Muirhead’s crucial last stone was just fractions away from its intended destination in the eighth end in the Ice Cube.
But it made all the difference as Korea took four shots and held on for victory to leave the Brits with two defeats and one stunning win against Sweden to their name after the first three games.
“We’ve got to move on, we’ve only played three games and we’ve been in this position before,” said Muirhead, who won the European title in Norway last year.
“We were in this position in the Olympic qualifier, we’d only won one game and lost two, so we know where we are, we know what we’ve got to do and of course we are going to come out firing.
“Out there there’s zero margin for error, any errors you make, you usually get crucified for them.
“We just didn’t get the rubs on our side and maybe we didn’t cotton on to the ice conditions early enough, that’s something we will learn from.
“I don’t think there’s any breathing space here, I think every team is of such high quality - that’s why they are at the Olympic Games.
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“We’ve had a very tough start but it’s nothing we’ve not done before and we know what we need to do and that's to come out a little bit sharper from the start.”
The draw was not particularly kind to Muirhead’s rink, they have faced the double world champions Switzerland, defending Olympic gold medallists Sweden and Korea, who took silver in PyeongChang four years ago, in successive games.
However, the schedule is looking more favourable now, with one game a day until the finish and their run-in begins with a clash against the USA on Saturday evening.
"One-game days are always a little bit easier to get up for and I think we can get lots of rest between now and then and come out firing tomorrow,” said the Sochi 2014 bronze medallist.