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
Zu Bruce Mouats großem Unglück traf er an dem Tag, an dem er seinen Kampf um Gold begann, auf einen schwedischen Burschen, der früher einen Panzer befehligte.
Das größere Problem dabei ist natürlich, dass Niklas Edin auch ein ziemlich praktischer Lockenwickler ist, was zur Folge hatte, dass Mouats Hoffnungen auf einen olympischen Titel der Rede von Silberstreifen weichen mussten.
Ein zweiter Platz ist bei allen Spielen eine schöne Leistung und in der Tat ein Segen für das Team GB bei
Rugby matches between Wales and Ireland go back a long way. Before what we would recognise as a modern scoring system, for instance.
When the countries met for the first time on January 28, 1882, tries did not count unless they were converted. The game was won by goals scored from the boot — conversions following a try, drop goals or a goal from mark, which occurred when a player took a clean catch, shouted ‘mark’ and was then given
