'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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Rhona Howie hailed Eve Muirhead’s resilience as the Team GB skip emulated her heroic feats of two decades ago.
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 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.
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 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.
They came, they curled, they conquered. And finally, after so much disappointment at these Winter Olympics, Team GB was finally able to celebrate its first gold medal. It came on the very last morning of these Games, courtesy of their women’s curling team, who thrashed Japan 10-4 in a display of ice-cold precision.
Great Britain, at the final time of asking, secured the first Team GB gold medal of the Winter Olympics early Sunday in emphatic fashion.
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.