Great Britain's curling teams take gold and silver
Great Britain, at the final time of asking, secured the first Team GB gold medal of the Winter Olympics early Sunday in emphatic fashion.
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Winter Olympics 2022 - Eve Muirhead's rink produce dominant performance to secure Team GB's first gold medal in Beijing
It took until the final hours of Beijing 2022 but Great Britain finally have a Winter Olympic gold medal. Eve Muirhead's outstanding women's rink followed the achievement of Rhona Martin's British team at Salt Lake City in 2002, dominating Japan in a final thrashing in which there rarely seemed doubt of who would be standing atop the podium — and in the end victory was achieved with an end to spare.
Curling gold medal final LIVE – Team GB and Eve Muirhead claim Olympic gold with dominant win over Japan at Beijing 2022
The women’s curling final at the Winter Olympics sees GB take on Japan at the Beijing National Aquatics centre. Eve Muirhead and her team have a guaranteed silver at worst, but are chasing GB’s first gold of the Games on the final day of action. Ad/> Bruce Mouat and the GB men agonisingly lost 5-4 to world champions Sweden in the first extra end in their final on Saturday.
Eve Muirhead ends long wait for Olympic gold as GB beat Japan in Beijing final
Twenty years after Rhona Martin’s famous gold medal win in Salt Lake City, Eve Muirhead needed no ‘Stone of Destiny’ drama to achieve her lifelong ambition of leading her Great Britain women’s curling team to Olympic gold.
Medals update: Muirhead and Team GB dominate Japan for women’s curling gold
Eve Muirhead and her curling team’s win over Japan (a rematch of the match for-bronze four years ago) in the final of the women’s curling competition saw Great Britain avoid the ignominy of leaving these Beijing Olympic Winter Games without a gold medal.
Winter Olympics LIVE: Great Britain faces Japan in women's curling final
Great Britain are facing Japan in the Olympic curling final in the early hours of this morning.
Winter Olympics 2022 Team GB women's curlers: Who are Eve Muirhead, Jennifer Dodds, Hailey Duff, Vicky Wright and Mili Smith?
Britain’s women have the chance to take gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing when they face Japan in the final.
Vicky Wright: From Covid nurse to curling Olympic medallist
Vicky Wright will return to her job as a surgical ward nurse with the NHS (The UK's Healthcare Service) as an Olympic medallist.