Can’t believe we don’t have one of these already. Superb battle between the lovely Swedish and Scots girls on Eurosport now.
There’s a winter Olympics thread where I believe I gave successful betting on Scotland to beat England in Curling
Great to see Eve Muirhead leading Scotland to the World title. A splendid day for Celtic curling. I said during the last Winter Olympics that she’d emulate the legendary Rhona Martin in leading Team GB to Olympic gold in Sochi in 2014. Nobody would be backing against her now. less than a year out.
Eve is a cracking curler.
I took a brief interest in this sport while in the midst of a short-lived internet romance with a Canadian girl some years ago. I can’t seem to remember anything about it now though.
File under - Mundane.
Oh FFs
I see our Team GB men’s curling team have made the Olympic final @GeoffreyBoycott. Good luck to Bruce and the lads against the Swedes.
Let’s hope Eve and the girls can sweep through to their final as they also face Swedish opposition in about seven hours’ time.
Disappointing to see Anna Sloan is not on the team this time.
This is actually on right now live on BBC2 and we’re coming up to the halfway point of the match. Sweden lead 5-4 and they have the hammer right now in end 5.
And Anna Hasselborg cannot beat Eve Muirhead’s strategic geo-curling as Team GB takes the steal for 5-5.
A superb comeback having been 4-0 down.
Eve hits a FOUR with the penultimate end!
Team Northern Britain go from 8-7 down to 11-8 up against the defending Olympic champions!
Six stones left in the match. This is as tense as elite sport gets.
OMG. Anna Hasselborg plays the stone of her life to take three shots and force this semi-final to extra-time. The curling equivalent of Steven Gerrard against West Ham in 2006.
One of these great teams will slip on the ice in this extra end.
The “Voice Of Curling” Steve Cram is ecstatic as Eve Muirhead, in her fourth Olympics as skip, wins the extra 11th end and leads Team GB to their first final since the golden year of 2002.
Simply amazing scenes.
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Curl away, don’t mind the ball!
So close for Bruce and the boys. So, so close. Sweden take the men’s gold 5-4 in extra time.
But who could begrudge the great Niklas Edin who finally, finally skips his team to gold.
Team GB closing in on gold in the blue riband event of the Olympics, the ladies’ curling.
You can’t help but warm to the Japanese team however.
What a final.
Fairly sure they won it about 6 hours ago
8-2!
Eve takes four!
Is the gold coming back to the British Isles?
This Yoshida lady for Japan is something else.
One of the great British sporting moments about to unfold.
Yeeeeessssss. Team GB are the Olympic champions!
The curling story of Eve Muirhead that began in Vancouver in 2010 reaches its denouement in Peking in 2022. And this forum has followed that story every step of the way.
What superb back up the skip received from Vicky Wright, Jen Dodds and Hillary Duff.
There’s your BBC Team Of The Year 2022.