'Long enough': Eve Muirhead's wait to emulate curling mentor Rhona's Olympic gold
Rhona Howie hailed Eve Muirhead’s resilience as the Team GB skip emulated her heroic feats of two decades ago.
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Curling teams claim both British medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics
Great Britain claimed two medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics, with Eve Muirhead’s women’s curling team taking gold while Bruce Mouat’s men return home with silver.
Eve Muirhead savours ‘moment I dreamed of’ Olympic gold medal after long wait
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.
Curling-Muirhead leads Britain to first Beijing gold with victory in women's final
BEIJING :Eve Muirhead and her rink screamed in delight after leading Britain to their first gold medal of the Beijing Games by soaring to a sensational 10-3 victory over Japan in the women's curling final on Sunday.
Eve Muirhead pays tribute to her Great Britain gold medal team-mates
Eve Muirhead paid tribute to her fellow team members after Great Britain swept to their first Olympic curling gold medal since Rhona Martin’s historic triumph in 2002.
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.
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.