Winter Olympics: Kirsty Muir's musical motivation, Eileen Gu's grandma goals - Beijing diary

TEENAGE TRICKSTER MUIR READY TO PLAY THAT TUNE Kirsty Muir dropped into another Olympic final with her favourite Arctic Monkeys song ringing in her headphones. Ad/> And the lyric 'The middle of an adventure, such a perfect place to start' never seemed more appropriate.

Beijing 2022Valieva silences noise for two minutes with classic skate – Best of Beijing2 HOURS AGO These have been a tough Games for Team GB, medals have been a bit like the snow — distinctly short in supply. Indeed with five days of competition to come the scorers have yet to be troubled, raising the prospect of a first Olympics without a medal in three decades — no pressure then Bruce Mouat and his curlers.

Muir expects she'll be back at Bucksburn Academy, where she is studying her Highers, next week. From flying high at the Olympics, and being tweeted on social media by Judy Murray, it'll be back to earth with a bump.

«I've got a lot of work to catch up on,» she added. «This is my last year in school and I'm thinking I might take a gap year to focus on my skiing, we'll just see.» Valieva silences noise for two minutes with classic skate – Best of Beijing 'A really good day skiing' — Muir and Summerhayes proud of top-10 finishes 'I have met my goal' — poster girl Gu happy to influence a new generation HE’S A CURLER FOLKS BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT With colourful custom Nikes, a walrus moustache and flowing locks, USA’s Matt Hamilton is nobody’s image of curling.

He is second on Team Shuster who are defending their Olympic title in the men’s tournament but you won’t catch the Wisconsin native ‘focusing on the process’ or ‘controlling the controllables.’ “Curling can definitely be rock and roll,” he said. “There are a lot of guys who play by the book but I am