The UK has never been so into curling. It all started in 2002 when the British women's team brought home the gold medal from Salt Lake City, and during the recent Winter Olympics in Sochi the nation was once again going ga-ga for the only sport I know of where each of the players needs their own broom. This time around the men won a silver, but FMS was, for some reason, far more interested in the women's team, who are to be congratulated for coming home with bronze medals.
Along with many of my countrymen and women, I've learned the "skipper" of a curling team is its most important member, because it is she who delivers the final two stones in each end, the stones that tend to decide whether you or your opponents will pick up points. [At this point, if you have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about, watch a little bit of this.] And Team GB's bronze medal-winning women's skipper in Sochi was this (rather beautiful) lady from Stirling in Scotland, Eve Muirhead.
And thanks to Scotland's Daily Record (and the research skills of FMS' Crossfit correspondent), we can report that Eve prepared for Sochi with an altogether different kind of curling, as well as a whole host of other movements.
Scots curling champ Eve Muirhead pushes herself to limit in gym, reads the headline. The article goes on to tell us that the 23-year-old looked in peak shape during a gruelling workout in Stirling, as she prepares to represent Team GB in Sochi next month, before almost exactly repeating itself in the next line: the 23-year-old looked in great shape during a gruelling workout at the Institute of Sport in Stirling.
I shouldn't be too hard on the (unnamed) journalist though. They were no doubt somewhat distracted by the images of Eve that accompany the piece, because whether she's in "top" or "peak" shape, she definitely looks like she's in shape.
Congratulations to Eve and the rest of her team. Now that's curl power...
Dedicated to Aiden, with thanks
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