David Murdoch
David Murdoch
David Murdochis a Scottish curler from Lockerbie. As the Scotland skip, he and his former team of Ewan MacDonald, Warwick Smith, Euan Byers and Peter Smith are the 2006 and 2009 World Curling Champions. Representing Great Britain, he has been skip at three Winter Olympics, Torino 2006, finishing fourth, Vancouver 2010, finishing fifth and Sochi 2014, where he won an Olympic silver medal...
ProfessionCurler
Date of Birth17 April 1978
consistent erase good icing last memories year
Last year was so disappointing. We just really wanted to erase those memories and it's been such a good year. We've been real consistent and this is just icing on the cake.
forced messy placed pressure stones
I think we just placed our stones better today. We never made a messy shot. We forced a lot of pressure on Canada.
last thinking
That's the last thing I'll be thinking about.
fantastic feels finally good ice quite
It feels fantastic to finally get started after all the build-up. We are not quite used to the ice yet but it was important to get a good start. When we've started well in the past, we have always done well.
beat bit games ourselves work
You know, you have games like that. It just didn't work out for us. We're still in the competition, so we don't want to beat ourselves up. We just got a little bit unlucky.
camp days excellent few five forward four games holding intensive looking practice training venue wait
We are all very well and looking forward to it. We had a really excellent four or five days of intensive training and a few practice games at our holding camp in Lucerne in Switzerland. We just can't wait to get to the venue and get on the ice.
bit european fine improvement robin round section third tournament
We are all getting on fine and our third place in the European Championships showed we can play well together. We topped the round robin section in that tournament and were a bit disappointed to end up with the bronze, but that was a marker and I'd like to think there's more improvement to come.
beaten beating capable opposition
We've beaten all our opposition at different times, so we know we are capable of beating them on the day.
ends games hundred played
You get games like that and you've just got to take it on the chin. We could have played a hundred ends and not get a result.
days
You get days like that and you've just got to take it on the chin.
beat came good great hearts prepared quite teams trained
We really couldn't have done any more. We trained our hearts out and prepared as well as we could and came here and had some great performances and beat a lot of good teams but just never quite got the breaks.
force nation
They're always a force. Canada's the most decorated nation in world curling. You always have to be up for them. They're the benchmark.
canada defeating far nation ourselves pride scottish sure
Defeating such a big curling nation as Canada, it's colossal. As far as Scottish curling goes, it's huge. There's a lot of pride at stake, making sure we do ourselves justice.
canada defeating nation
Defeating such a big curling nation as Canada, it's colossal.