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Eve Muirhead, who brought Olympic curling gold home to the sport's birthplace in Scotland in 2022, is ending a four-year retirement to bid for the 2030 Alps Winter Olympics in France.
"Four years ago, I didn't know if I would retire, and then I did. I thought it was the best decision I've ever made," she said, according to Team GB. "But I now realize that once you get a bit fed up of something, you need to take a step to the side, put it to bed for a while and eventually the love will come back for it. That is what happened for me.”
Muirhead, 36, is returning in the mixed doubles discipline with fellow Scot Bobby Lammie, who won silver with the British men's team at the last two Winter Games.
Muirhead has never competed in mixed doubles at the Olympics. She skipped British women's teams in 2010 (seventh place), 2014 (bronze), 2018 (fourth place) and 2022 (gold).
Muirhead competed at the World Championship for mixed doubles once, winning the title with Lammie in 2022.
“I feel like I've got a bit of unfinished business in mixed doubles," she said. "In the team game, I feel like I've achieved what I want to achieve, the dream, the Olympic gold medal."
Scots Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat represented Britain in mixed doubles at the last two Olympics, placing fourth each time.
Muirhead was a prodigy from the home of curling, winning her first of four world junior titles at age 16. At 19, she was the youngest skip at the Vancouver Olympics, where her rink placed seventh.
She earned her first senior world medal a month later (silver), her first senior world title in 2013 and in 2014 became the youngest skip to win an Olympic medal (bronze).
Muirhead started curling at age 9, tagging along with her father, Gordon, an Olympic curler in 1992 when it was a demonstration sport. Muirhead’s brothers, Glen and Thomas, also competed in Olympic curling in 2018.
Muirhead declined scholarship offers to play college golf in the U.S. to pursue curling. She is also a world-class bagpiper, according to the Scottish curling federation.
At age 11, she stayed up late to watch Rhona Martin’s rink win Great Britain’s first Olympic women’s curling title in 2002.
Twenty years later, Muirhead won Great Britain's second Olympic women's curling title. She announced her retirement five months after that.
“When I decided to come out of retirement, I was scared but I was also really, really determined," she said. "The opportunity was there and it would have been silly not to take it. I feel the love for the sport is back."
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"Four years ago, I didn't know if I would retire, and then I did. I thought it was the best decision I've ever made," she said, according to Team GB. "But I now realize that once you get a bit fed up of something, you need to take a step to the side, put it to bed for a while and eventually the love will come back for it. That is what happened for me.”
Muirhead, 36, is returning in the mixed doubles discipline with fellow Scot Bobby Lammie, who won silver with the British men's team at the last two Winter Games.
Muirhead has never competed in mixed doubles at the Olympics. She skipped British women's teams in 2010 (seventh place), 2014 (bronze), 2018 (fourth place) and 2022 (gold).
Muirhead competed at the World Championship for mixed doubles once, winning the title with Lammie in 2022.
“I feel like I've got a bit of unfinished business in mixed doubles," she said. "In the team game, I feel like I've achieved what I want to achieve, the dream, the Olympic gold medal."
Scots Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat represented Britain in mixed doubles at the last two Olympics, placing fourth each time.
Muirhead was a prodigy from the home of curling, winning her first of four world junior titles at age 16. At 19, she was the youngest skip at the Vancouver Olympics, where her rink placed seventh.
She earned her first senior world medal a month later (silver), her first senior world title in 2013 and in 2014 became the youngest skip to win an Olympic medal (bronze).
Muirhead started curling at age 9, tagging along with her father, Gordon, an Olympic curler in 1992 when it was a demonstration sport. Muirhead’s brothers, Glen and Thomas, also competed in Olympic curling in 2018.
Muirhead declined scholarship offers to play college golf in the U.S. to pursue curling. She is also a world-class bagpiper, according to the Scottish curling federation.
At age 11, she stayed up late to watch Rhona Martin’s rink win Great Britain’s first Olympic women’s curling title in 2002.
Twenty years later, Muirhead won Great Britain's second Olympic women's curling title. She announced her retirement five months after that.
“When I decided to come out of retirement, I was scared but I was also really, really determined," she said. "The opportunity was there and it would have been silly not to take it. I feel the love for the sport is back."
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IOC approves French Alps 2030 Winter Olympics city events in Lyon, speed skating in Netherlands
The IOC approved proposals to change venues from French Alps 2030 organizers.
Continue reading...
