Winter Olympics 2022: 'Something in the stars' - Eve Muirhead backed to deliver curling gold for Team GB

Logan Gray and Greg Rutherford believe that Eve Muirhead's curlers are favourites for gold ahead of their final against Japan at Beijing 2022 — which is live on Eurosport and discovery+ from 01:05 GMT. The men's curlers won Team GB's first medal on Sunday, although they were defeated by Sweden in a dramatic extra end in the men's final, but the nation has another chance at gold with the women's team.

Ad/> In an Olympics with few medals for GB, they have shown themselves as big players in the curling world with two finals and a bronze-medal match. Beijing 2022Mouat 'very disappointed' with curling defeat, Rutherford says 'pressure was monumental'2 HOURS AGO And after missing out on the bronze in the mixed doubles and taking silver in the men's, two-time world junior bronze medallist Logan Gray believes that gold beckons for Muirhead's team.

«They won the bronze medal in 2014, they had a shot at bronze in 2018 and just missed it,» said Gray in The Cube. «You kind of feel like Eve Muirhead's been on a trajectory to get to his point.

»We've been waiting and waiting and she finally has an opportunity to go for the gold." Heartbreak and silver for Team GB as Sweden with nervy curling final in Beijing 'What a shot' — Muirhead delivers for GB with brilliant stone And former Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford said it was «destiny» that they win gold, and praised GB's curlers for dominating the sport in Beijing. «They are there, there is something in the stars, you can feel it,» said the long jump gold medallist.