It has been a rollercoaster journey in curling for Vicky Wright in the last 10 months.From the tension of the qualification journey – Scotland missed out in May and had to get through December’s last qualifier with a tie breaker – to the euphoria of winning gold at the Winter Olympics, the journey had it all.The Dumfries-born athlete said: “It’s been the most up and down, emotional, highs, lows rollercoaster of a journey I’ve been on.“We came through the qualifier in December getting the top spot on a draw shot and we knew we’d achieve it and we believed in ourselves.
But to get that spot and come back and know we were going to the Olympics a new challenge started.”This Winter Olympics gold medal run had the same themes from qualifying to the final – lows were followed by highs but ultimately the team would find success – even if they did it the hard way.Team GB sat on a 4-4 record after a surprise defeat to China but wins over the Russia Olympic Committee, combined with other results going their way, meant they secured a semi-final berth.
But the semi-final against Sweden was possibly one of the most stressful matches with Great Britain winning 12-11 in an extra end.Vicky added: “We got out there and expected every game to be like a final.
We didn’t know how it was going to go. There were eight teams in the women’s field in the top 10 at that point.“We knew we had to beat Russia and have a good draw shot.
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