Muirhead opts to retire

Olympic curling champion Eve Muirhead is retiring from the sport. Muirhead, 32, secured Britain’s only gold medal at this year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing, having also won bronze in Sochi in 2014. Muirhead also teamed up with Bobby Lammie to win the mixed doubles world championship in April. “Eve Muirhead will go down in history not only as one of the greatest-ever British curlers, but as one of the greatest sportswomen this country has produced,” British Curling performance director Nigel Holl said.