Less than 24 hours after Team GB celebrated its first medal win of the Beijing Winter Olympics with the men’s curling team taking home silver, the women’s curling team has claimed Team GB’s second medal – and this time, it was gold.

The team, Milli Smith, Hailey Duff, Jennifer Dodds, Vicky Wright and skip Eve Muirhead, took to the ice against Japan in the early hours of Sunday morning (the last day of the games) and came away with a 10-4 victory.

However, besides being a remarkable achievement, the gold medal performance also represented a huge comeback for the team, who have faced a number of hurdles on their journey to and during these Olympics – and taught us all a lesson in resilience in the process.

Beijing 2022: Team GB’s women’s curling squad just won gold after a “rollercoaster journey”