Eve Muirhead delivers her bold prediction for Team GB's curlers after being unveiled as British flagbearer in Beijing
Team GB flagbearer Eve Muirhead backed Scotland’s curlers to bring home an incredible haul of three medals from Beijing.
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Winter Olympics: Eve Muirhead backs Scottish curlers to win three medals in Beijing, with Edinburgh's Bruce Mouat collecting two of them
At tomorrow's opening ceremony, Muirhead will be the second curler to carry the flag after Rhona Martin was given the honour at the closing ceremony in 2002 and opening in 2006.
Britain suffer first defeat, Italy lead mixed doubles standings
BEIJING: Reigning world curling champions Britain slipped to their first mixed doubles defeat against Switzerland at the National Aquatics Centre on Thursday (Feb 3), while Italy stormed to the top of the standings with a perfect start to their round-robin campaign.
Curling-Britain suffer first defeat, Italy lead mixed doubles standings
BEIJING :Reigning world curling champions Britain slipped to their first mixed doubles defeat against Switzerland at the National Aquatics Centre on Thursday, while Italy stormed to the top of the standings with a perfect start to their round-robin campaign.
Winter Olympics: Capital curlers Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds ready to fight fire with fire after falling to first defeat
The Edinburgh pair lived up to their billing as gold medal favourites by seeing off world bronze medallists Sweden and reigning Olympic champions Canada in their first two matches, but 2018 silver medallists Switzerland proved a step too far.
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The mixed doubles format was added to the curling programme for the last Winter Olympics, and will again be held at Beijing 2022.
Winter Olympics: Team GB mixed doubles curlers earn notable win against Canada
Team GB's curling mixed doubles pair gained another notable victory against fellow medal hopes Canada at the Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Winter Olympics 2022 - Bagpipes inspire Team GB curling team to a winning start in Beijing
British curling pair Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat were on-song as they kicked off Team GB’s Winter Olympics campaign in fine style with a 9-5 win over Sweden in their opening round robin match in the mixed doubles. In a tense match in Beijing, Dodds and Mouat capitalised on errors from the World Championship bronze medallists to take a confidence-boosting victory. Ad/> The Scottish childhood friends were given a timely reminder of home with a Chinese bagpipe band helping to inspire the pair.