Bringing Home the Gold

It is always exciting to be at an airport to meet a Scottish team coming home with medals. International medals of any colour are difficult to win, and gold is a very special achievement for any team. So, many congratulations to (L-R) Anna Sloan, Vicki Adams, Eve Muirhead, Claire Hamilton and Kay Adams, and all the support staff and coaches, especially Gordon Muirhead, the team coach.

Proud of you, we all are!

Piper Callum Moffat made the occasion that bit more special at Edinburgh Airport this afternoon as family, friends and well-wishers welcomed the teams home. Our men's team was there too. David Murdoch knows well what it is like to be in the homecoming limelight, but today though, the spotlight was on our girls!

Eve, the consummate professional as always, patiently answers the media questions. What questions would you have asked Eve this afternoon, I wonder?

Photos © Skip Cottage

Vote for Anette

Sweden's Anette Norberg has been selected as a finalist for the 2011 Sportswoman of the Year (Team Sports Athlete) Award by the US-based Women’s Sports Foundation. You have until September 5 to vote for her at this page on Facebook. The instructions are in the second panel. (You have to 'Like' the Women's Sports Foundation first. When you do, it opens up the way to 'Like' Anette's photo which records your vote). If you are not on Facebook you can still vote. Find out how on this page.

It's great to see our sport get good publicity like this.

The photo above is by Leslie Ingram-Brown from last season's Capital One World Women's Curling Championship in Esbjerg. That's Scotland's Vicki Adams and Anna Sloan behind Anette. Vicki and Anna are members of Eve Muirhead's team for this season with Claire Hamilton. Good to see the team have their own Facebook page. Click here to see their team photos from their squad training at Greenacres this week.

Photo courtesy of Leslie Ingram-Brown