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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Alex Spink

British Olympic bosses pledge to help Rhona Howie get new gold medal 20 years on

Twenty years after winning Olympic curling gold Rhona Howie has been given new hope of finally getting her stolen medal replaced.

Howie is back at the Games as a commentator, her presence in Beijing evoking memories of 2002 when she broke Swiss hearts with the very last stone of the final.

She was Rhona Martin back then and the ‘stone of destiny’, as it became known, brought Britain’s first winter gold since Torvill and Dean in 1984.

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