Clutching her gold medal after leading her women’s curling team to a triumphant performance at the Winter Olympics, ‘ice queen’ Eve Muirhead has certainly come a long way from the farmer’s daughter with makeshift curling shoes.
Growing up in a small village in rural Scotland, Eve used to glue milk cartons to her trainers to create curling shoes and only received her first pair second-hand from her grandmother when she was a teenager.
But that didn’t stop her natural talent