Team GB curling gold medallist Eve Muirhead undecided on Milano-Cortina 2026

Great Britain’s gold-medal winning curling skip Eve Muirhead has cast a shadow of doubt over a defence of her recently acquired Olympic title at Milano-Cortina 2026, the next Winter Games.

Muirhead, along with vice-skip Vicky Wright, Jennifer Dodds, Hailey Duff and alternate Mili Smith, triumphed over Japan 10-3 to win Team GB’s only gold medal at Beijing 2022.

Their success followed a silver won by men’s skip Bruce Mouat who were felled by Niklas Edin’s Sweden a day earlier.

Speaking on Scotland Tonight, the four-time Olympian and two-time Olympic medallist admitted that while she is overwhelmed by the result and its subsequent reception, her own plans for the future are far from set:

“Honestly, I don’t know,” said Muirhead on whether a decision had been made on another Olympic appearance.

“I want to savour these memories, make the most of the next few weeks and months and then, of course, there’s going to be that time that I need to decide what I’m going to do in the future.

“I am young, but I am the oldest in the team now. It depends how the body holds up.

Muirhead’s allusion to whether she can physically accept the challenge of another Olympic cycle comes after a hip injury back in 2018 threatened to end her career entirely.

The pain hit its apex at PyeongChang 2018 where the Scot and her team at the time suffered an Olympic-sized heartbreak after they fell to Japan in the bronze-medal match, meaning they returned home without any silverware.

The curler underwent surgery not unlike the operation conducted on compatriot and tennis ace Andy Murray. Though she was soon back on the ice what she endured remains with her.

For now, the focus for the Scot is on soaking up the attention her and her rink are duly receiving.

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