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David Murdoch backs Eve Muirhead to be ‘one of the greatest ever’ after GB gold
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.
Winter Olympics 2022: 'It is going to take a long time to sink in' - Eve Muirhead revels in 'incredible' curling triumph
Eve Muirhead could barely hide her disbelief after Great Britain produced a commanding showing to win Winter Olympic curling gold. Breaking Team GB's Beijing 2022 gold medal duck, the skip and her rink played virtually flawlessly at the Ice Cube, not even requiring the final end. Ad/> Japan settled for silver at 10-3 down after the ninth end, with 2014 bronze medallist Muirhead leading from the front with an outstanding performance both with and without the hammer to control a one-sided victory.
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.
Curling-Britain beat Japan to win women's curling gold
BEIJING : Britain won the gold medal in the women's curling competition at the Beijing Olympics after beating Japan at the National Aquatics Centre on Sunday.
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.