Eve Muirhead confident Britain ‘can disrupt the norm’
Medal chances in snowboarding, skiing and skeleton
Team GB have never made anything more than the occasional ripple at the Winter Olympics. Which makes the prediction of Eve Muirhead, Britain’s chef de mission at the Milano Cortina Games, rather extraordinary.
“I believe that we are taking one of the most potent teams of athletes that we have taken to a Winter Olympic Games,” she says. “We have the capability to disrupt the norm.”
That norm, between 1952 and 2010, was just 12 medals in 16 Winter Games. Then came a surge, with five medals in Sochi in 2014 and five in Pyeongchang in 2018, before Britain won just two medals in Beijing. But Muirhead, who led the women’s curling team to Team GB’s only gold four years ago, senses that new ground will be broken by the 53 British athletes over the next 16 days.
