Olympic curling champion Eve Muirhead retires
LONDON (AP) — Olympic curling champion Eve Muirhead is retiring from the game.
The 32-year-old Muirhead secured Britain’s solely gold medal at this 12 months’s Winter Olympics in Beijing, having additionally gained bronze in Sochi in 2014.
“After 15 years of worldwide curling and 21 worldwide titles I’ve made the toughest resolution of my life to hold up my curling footwear and retire,” Muirhead mentioned in a post on social media on Thursday. “All through my profession and like most athletes, I’ve skilled each the best of the highs, (turning into an Olympic champion) and the bottom of lows and at instances the long run appeared very distant. It’s been an emotional journey, however a journey that I’m extremely happy with.”
Muirhead additionally teamed up with Bobby Lammie to win the combined doubles world championship in April.
“Eve Muirhead will go down in historical past not solely as one of many greatest-ever British curlers, however as one of many biggest sportswomen this nation has produced,” British Curling efficiency director Nigel Holl mentioned.
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