Eve Muirhead

David Murdoch hailed Great Britain's newly-crowned Olympic champions and predicted that Eve Muirhead could go on to become one of the sport's greats. Murdoch, the team's Olympics curling coach, watched Muirhead craft an emphatic 10-3 win over Japan to ...

Huge credit to the nine players who threw themselves at it and went significantly outside their comfort zone.” “They never had it easy here, they had to fight all the way. We changed the team around and played the nine players in different combinations each week. “Twenty years has been long enough,” said Howie. “It was emotional. The composure and calmness was evident today and you could just see the girls so relaxed, and I think that was the key.” “It was a perfect performance.

Team Muirhead has been constructed over four years – painfully and painstakingly – qualifying for the Games at the final attempt and going on to win gold. The ...

“The talent that she has is also phenomenal. “She’s a phenomenal curler. It took a lot of encouragement and persuasion to show she was one of the best thirds in the world. She is a nurse and worked during Covid – we have to take our hats off to her for that. She’s such a great team player in every single way.” “She’s an incredible curler.

Eve Muirhead's fourth Olympic Games could finally deliver her that cherished curling gold medal.

But the British skip held her nerve and defied the odds to guide her rink of Olympic debutants to victory, producing the shot of the match in the ninth end with the hammer to give Team GB a crucial four points. They were forced to come back from the abyss in the Olympic Qualifying Event, after losses to Turkey and South Korea put them on the verge of missing out, to book their spots on the plane to the Chinese capital and giving Muirhead a shot at a fourth Games. Despite going under the knife and missing a shot against the Japanese to win bronze in PyeongChang, Muirhead fought back to mount another Olympic challenge, this time with a brand-new rink on the road to Beijing 2022.

Eve Muirhead required no extra ends nor 'Stone of Destiny' dramas as she fulfilled an overdue ambition by sweeping Great Britain's women's curling team to Olympic gold at the Ice Cube in Beijing on Sunday. Twenty years after Rhona Martin slid her final ...

Twenty years ago it was Martin’s team of self-styled Ayrshire housewives who kept viewers up after midnight back in the UK to savour their moment of triumph. Muirhead responded by raising a fist to the air, surely conscious that the moment she had craved for throughout her career was finally hers. “They would have stayed up to watch last night,” said Wright. “I can’t wait to see them when I go back. “It has definitely been a rollercoaster journey for the whole team. “There were times I wanted to throw my shoes in the cupboard and never get them out again. “Having lost two semi-finals then come through that great battle against Sweden, we knew this was an opportunity we might never get again.

After heart-breaking near misses, hip surgery and a tumultuous campaign in Beijing, Eve Muirhead says curling gold is a "dream come true".

Great Britain's Vicky Wright and tearful skip Eve Muirhead with their curling gold medals at the presentation ceremony (Andrew Milligan/PA Images). It completed ...

The two (Olympic) semi-finals I lost were hard but I bounced back and it is such a special moment.” Muirhead raised a fist to the air in the Aquatics Centre, surely conscious the moment she had craved for so long was finally hers. I am so proud of the way these girls played in the final. It is something we’ll never forget and we’re going to enjoy the next few hours.” We have so many people to thank. Muirhead seized the advantage with an extraordinary shot with her final stone of the seventh end, her brilliant raised take-out – effectively a plant – knocking the single Japanese stone out of the house to score four and all but seal victory.