White and Co. reach quarters

OLDHAM'S Nicola White and her Great Britain team continued their superb run of form at the Olympic Games with a fifth win from five group stages games, seeing off the USA 2-1.

Goals from Sophie Bray and Alex Danson overturned Michelle Vittesse's opener and secured top spot in the pool for Danny Kerry's team.

Team GB now meet Spain in the quarter-finals tonight (10pm UK time) as the medal positions draw ever closer.

Kate Richardson-Walsh, Great Britain captain, said: "If you'd offered us top spot at the start of the week I'd have bitten your hand off.

"The momentum we've created is good. All the sides are excellent in this tournament so I'm really proud of what we've done so far.

"We had a lot of possession and chances but we had to turn those into goals. We had to wait to get on the board but it came in the end. In all the games we've shown a bit of difference in what we can do. We've been goals up, goals down, played with ten and played with nine.

"We're showing we can do all kinds of hockey."