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CBC SportsSwitzerland’s new-look men’s curling team qualified for the final of the 2006 European championships on Friday in Basel, Switzerland.
MIKE HAGGERTY
THE British Olympic Association will unveil the men’s and women’s Olympic curling teams in Glasgow today, with the gold-medal heroine from the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City, Rhona Martin, hoping to be selected to compete in Turin in eight weeks’ time despite only finishing fifth at last week’s European Championships in Germany.
Martin thrust the sport into an unprecedented spotlight when she and the British women fought back through three sudden-death games to win a nail-biting final in Salt Lake City in front of a record television audience at home. Just a matter of weeks later, Aberdeen’s Jackie Lockhart won the world title with an entirely different quartet of Scottish players.
MIKE HAGGERTY, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
December 19 2005
Scottish skip David Murdoch did not know whether to laugh or cry as he reflected on the bronze medals he and his team had won at the Le Gruyere European Curling Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Bronze was the well-deserved reward for a week of excellent play by the Scottish squad of Euan Byers, Warwick Smith, Craig Wilson, Ewan MacDonald and skip Murdoch from Lockerbie.
