Hours after Hailey Duff received her Beijing Winter Olympics gold medal, youngsters took part in a come-and-try session at the Forfar rink where she threw her first stone.
Having watched in awe as Forfar's Hailey Duff became an Olympic gold medallist with Team Muirhead, the town's senior men went on to taste Scottish success.
Scottish Rinks Weathering Storm
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A desperate curling campaign has succeeded in desperate times.
Scottish curling’s grass roots, already struggling with recent facility closures before the COVID-19 pandemic, got a recent boost when the government pledged U.S. $2.7 million in direct support.
The windfall could mean the difference between some of the nation’s rinks surviving past the pandemic and into the next 2021-22 curling season.
“I was delighted to hear that the work had paid off,” said 2014 Olympic finalist and two-time world men s champion skip David Murdoch. “The last few months have been extremely difficult for all our rinks. They’ve had had incredible pressures of finance, dilemmas of feasibility of opening, and a yo-yo of open or close restrictions.”