Eve Muirhead tasked with saving Team GB's Olympics in curling showdown - Best of Beijing

BEST MOMENTS OF DAY 15 'Something in the stars' Ad/> The fate of a nation rests on one woman. OK, that’s overhyping it slightly… Four women. Beijing 2022Musgrave's weather woes, 'Bring laptop to dinner', Wanaka forever! — Beijing diaryAN HOUR AGO Eve Muirhead, and her loyal companions Jen Dodds, Hailey Duff and Vicky Wright, are the chosen four to rescue Team GB’s Winter Olympics and nab gold from the Beijing vault.

After a life dedicated to a thin strip of ice painted with targets, this is Muirhead’s defining moment. A broom tantrum at Vancouver 2010, bronze at Sochi 2014 and capitulation at PyeongChang 2018 have carved the path to her biggest day. Twenty years ago in Salt Lake City, a nation held its breath as Rhona Martin caressed the ‘stone of destiny’ down the ice, illegible bellows soundtracking the tense shuffle, before it nudged a Swiss stone away for gold.

Britain has not triumphed on ice since. There are parallels between Martin’s run to the final and Muirhead. Martin needed two tie-breaker matches just to make the semi-finals, Muirhead snuck out of the round-robin phase via an unusual draw shot challenge.

Martin came through the semi-final with the final stone, Muirhead needed an extra end. Does that bode well for the final? Not for our hearts, sure, but possibly our hopes of gold. After Bruce Mouat's rink failed to get over the line, we're left staring at the possibility of a hopeless haul of two silvers.

A gold and a silver – and maybe even if a bronze if Brad Hall pulls it out the bag in the four-man bobsleigh – might just pass as a success. Or at least enough to avoid our German office sending us another humiliating meme. «They are there, there is something in the stars, you can feel it,» said Greg