Team GB have won their first gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics in the women’s curling.

Eve Muirhead’s team led 4-1 after the fifth end after Japanese skip Satsuki Fujisawa missed an attempted take-out and gave Muirhead a steal of one.

Muirhead scored two on the first end but a missed attempt at two in the fourth had given the Japanese a glimmer of hope.

Team member Jennifer Dodds told the BBC: “I don’t think it is going to sink in for a while.

“I am so proud of the way these girls played in the final.

“We grew in confidence with every game.

“Thanks to our family and friends – they know how much this means to us.”

Team-mate Hailey Duff added: “We just focused on what we needed to do.”

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