Team GB has won its first and only gold medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics on the final day of the games.
Britain's women's curling team cruised to victory over Japan in the final of the event earlier today, February 20, ensuring at the last minute that Team GB didn't leave Beijing without topping at least one podium.
The 10-3 victory was the joint-biggest winning margin for an Olympic final since curling was reintroduced to the games in 1998.
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The women's victory caps a successful games for Britain's curling teams, with the men yesterday having won silver after narrowly losing their own final to Sweden.
The medals are Team GB's first in curling since 2014, when the women's team took bronze in Sochi. Team skipper Eve Muirhead was also part of that achievement, and described finally taking the gold at her fourth Olympics as 'a dream come true'.
'That was my third semi-final, and the two I lost were hard but I bounced back and here we are. We are Olympic champions. It's such a special moment,' she told BBC Sport in a post-match interview.
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Muirhead's teammates also expressed their shock and delight at their victory, which came after the team only narrowly squeaked through the round robin stage of the tournament to make the knockout rounds.
'I don't think it's going to sink in for a while,' said Jen Dodds, who also competed in the mixed doubles event. 'I'm so proud of these girls and the way they played in that final and the whole week.
'We built on every game, we got more confidence every game. Hopefully that was slightly less stressful that the semi-final for all our families.'
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The women's victory comes 20 years after Team GB's only other gold in the event, when the women's team took gold in Salt Lake City in 2002.
It also ensures that Team GB continues its record of winning one gold medal at each Winter Olympics since 2010.
Overall, however, the games have been somewhat disappointing for Britain, with the two curling medals Team GB's only two podium finishes of the games.
The British Olympic Association and UK Sport had been targeting between three and seven medals in Beijing, with hopefuls in skeleton, skiing and snowboarding, after coming away with five at each of the past two Winter Olympics.
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Hannah Smith