Witer Olympics: Team GB curling's family affair, Eileen Gu's must-have mascot - Beijing diary

All is fair in love and (curling) war Poor British curling coach Kristian Lindstrom. He saw Eve Muirhead's rink booked their place in the Olympic final in a thriller with Sweden — and then had to comfort Johanna Hedlin, his fiancee. Ad/> «The immediate feeling was 100 percent joy and then I saw how sad Johanna was,» he said.

«The wedding is meant to be in 2024, if they allow me back in Sweden.» Beijing 2022Muirhead stars (and scares!) as curling fever grips Britain again – Best of Beijing2 HOURS AGO Master Murdoch admits Apprentice Mouat has his number David Murdoch, the last British skip to contest an Olympic final, has no doubts who’d win in a showdown with Bruce Mouat. Murdoch took silver eight years ago in Sochi and is now head coach to Mouat’s class of 2022, that includes Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan. He lost a one-sided final to Canada in Russia but beat Sweden’s Niklas Edin, Mouat’s gold medal match opponent, in the semi-finals.

“I don’t think there is much doubt if Bruce’s rink played mine from 2014, they’d win,” said Murdoch. “The game’s changed a lot and it’s a lot more technical and these teams train so much harder than we did. “We’ve made sure we’ve always got all the data that we have on them to know what strategy to take to play against them, Bruce is much more a student of that than I was.

“I also think the type of training we’ve done the last four years has really taken the level up and a lot of teams look at us because of that, there isn’t a fitter team around. “Niklas is very experienced, I’ve played him loads and so has Bruce. We don’t have anything to fear and our recent record against them is really good, we beat them in the round robins here and twice at the European Championships,