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The article on the results of the male and female curling results says:

"But Muirhead's quartet were unable to shut the game out and France responded with a double and two singles to move with two at 4-6 down."

Muirhead is the girl, Murdoch is the guy.

She is fit.

She certainly is fit

Moi

she is beautiful

As an olympic athlete I would hope she is fit, but I agree with the other posters

I reckon she is marriage material, just wished she played for the other team

God I despair..... are these comments actually constructive in any way, yes Eve is an attractive, healthy young woman and as an elite athelete is fit.

Thought I had stumbled onto FHM for one moment. These sort of comments don't help establish Curling as a serious sport.

Come along to one of the RCCC Come and Try sessions in March and see how hard it really is:

Vancouver Olympics 2010

Can team England win gold in curling?

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Welshcurler, surely it can be only a good thing for curling that the lead curler in the British Olymic team is buff as. As for establishing it as a serious sport, that is never going to happen. Infact, nothing in the winter Olympics will ever be taken that seriously by the public.

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Anhtuan - there is no Team England.

As a proud Scot, its a bit frustrating when people keep referring to our team as English rather than British - especially since the GB curling teams (both mens and womens) are made up of mainly Scottish curlers.

Hey, quite a few of the female curlers are not bad at all. Come to think of it there's heaps o' nice totty on the go at these Olympics.
Have to say young Evie's my favourite tho!

All the best Eve!! xxx

Just to clarify. There is an agreement that GB is represented by Scotland when it comes to the curling. The teams are always Scottish teams.
Basically the English cannae play it very well.

There is only 1 place in England to play curling so it's bound to be Scots to represent GBR but so what they do us all proud and its a great sport to watch.

For her age, she surely has to easily be up there with the best curlers on the planet. Her performance, and the rest of the girls today, today was exemplary against Germany, and her maturity and decision-making on the rink belie the 19 year old head on her shoulders.

So as an ignorant American, could someone explain me how sometimes you guys represent Great Britain and sometimes you represent your individual countries (i.e. England in the World Cup)? Is it just a matter of whether you think you need to team up to be competitive, or if you feel you've got a shot at winning on your own?

I watched the GB v Germany round-robin tie earlier this evening and enjoyed every minute of it. I think Eve Muirhead's rink has an excellent chance of medalling, hopefully going all the way for Gold. The balance in the rink is fantastic.

Eve Muirhead herself is a prodigy. She has all the attributes of a great skip in the making - she reads the game well including the changing ice conditions in the course of a game, opposition shot choice and delivery and the finer nuances of the game which, like cricket, are subtle and complex beyond the first impressions of the casual observer; she plans her strategy on the hoof as well as any and her execution of the pressure shots is up there with the best.

Her 'Third', Jackie Lockhart, a former World Champion skip, member of various rinks at European and World level as well as being a multiple Scottish Champion provides the mature foil to the youthful and dynamic youngster.

Kelly Wood is a very experienced skip in her own right and an ideal 'Second' in the rink. She has the ability to play key shots in the early development of attacking ends, setting the platform for Jackie and Eve to do their stuff at the business end.

Lorna Vevers is a rock steady 'Lead' who can be relied upon to drop the corner and centre guards on a sixpence.

I have been very impressed so far. I hope they keep up the good work and go all the way.

Here's tae success in the 'Roaring Game'!

Scott it is actually very simple. England, Scotland, Wales adn Northern Ireland are not countries, 'merely' now legally regions of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irelend. Where we play individually as England, Scotlad etc it is merely a question of tradition in individual sports, and really follows the precedent set in International Football wher England versus Scotland ws the first true international. Many other sports have had 'Home Internationals' ie competitions between the different historic countries of the UK, and this has led to the home 'nations' playing separately owing to separate affiliation to various sporting regulatory bodies. However, in most sports we participate as Great Britain, which includes Northern Ireland although strictly in non-sporting terms it does not hence why in the Olympics we are known as GB and NI.

England , Scotland and Wales certainly are countries, davrid. I'm sure many proud Welsh, Scots and English men/women won't like their countries to be described as regions!

Dravid,
Actually, it is not that simple. It started in 1896 when the countries of Great Britain combined to make a team for the Olympics.

Most sports are played against other nations by all the individual countries of Great Britain. Not too many people would like to see a GB team for the World Cup in Africa this year!
Indeed, most citizens of Great Britain would like to see their own countries represented at the Olympics, but it would be very costly.

To Gavelaa,
you wrote "Infact, nothing in the winter Olympics will ever be taken that seriously by the public."

I take it that you were only refering to the insular Great British public. ;-)
The winter Olympics, and winter sports in general, are actually quite big in several (northern and central) European countries, Russia, northern Asian countries, Canada and parts of the U.S. Not as universal as summer Olympic sports, I grant you, but very important in countries where ice hockey is the number one professional sport, where cross country or downhill skiers are national heroes.

I'm glad that despite the general lack of enthusiasm for winter sports, GB does produce top athletes and teams, for example the Kerr siblings in ice dance, Chemmy Alcott in alpine skiing, the curlers, Amy Williams in skeleton... Thumbs up for all GB winter sportsmen and women!

I watched the interview with Eve Muirhead and Jackie Lockhart after the defeat by Canada, or should I say, the missed opportunity of a GB victory. Eve said the right things to camera at first, but subsided into a stunned "1000-yard stare" while Jackie was interviewed. Jackie's comments of "she'll bounce back" sounded a bit hollow, I'm afraid, and there was certainly no bounce-back in evidence against Switzerland.

Did the coaches do this hugely-talented 19 year-old any favours by making her skip? Is there no stand-in who could skip while she gets her head together again? Canada certainly used that option after an unexpected defeat.
"What doesn't kill you makes you strong." or so they say. I sure hope this tournament isn't killing Eve's self-belief. She needs careful handling now so that she can go on to be World Senior Champion and to a medal in Sochi.

Sorry, senior moment. That defeat snatched from the jaws of victory was v. the USA, not Canada.

Simple question, on some of the sweepers brushes there appears to be some kind of device near to the head, what is it?

27. At 10:57pm on 22 Feb 2010, gramar357

It's just a stopwatch put in a convenient location to measure the time it takes to get from one hog line to the other. It helps to determine how the ice is playing on that particular rink, and also aids in assisting with weight of shot.

@Welshcurler who says I am obliged to promote curling as a serious sport? If you want to promote it, go right ahead, but this is the comments section under a blog post on the internet, and I demand the right to free speech without being lectured to by the likes of you. I say Eve Muirhead is fit (as in attractive) and I want to go out with her. I admire her steely determination as a sportswoman, and the stern icy gaze of her piercing blue eyes makes my tummy go funny. Spare us the lecture.