David Murdoch
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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
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.
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.
bury chance hard hoping next time
It is hard to take because the chance was there. It will be with me for a long time but I am hoping we will get the chance to bury it at the next Olympics.
recycle run
It is important to reuse our resources. If you don't recycle and reuse things, you may run out of them.