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
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.
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.
behind great happy team
I'm happy because I've got a great team behind me.
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.
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.
hard shows together train work
It shows what you can do if you really train hard and work together as a team.
bit bronze came given great last medal week win wrong
It's devastating. We wanted that bronze medal every bit as much as we wanted to win the semi-final. We had given some great performances over the last week but just came out on the wrong end of it.
obviously ourselves owe playing
It's an old rivalry. It's been around for a long, long time. We're obviously playing for our country, but we owe it to ourselves to do this for each other.
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.
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.