Household bragging rights go to Forfar's Vicky Wright

Vicky Wright is all smiles with her team mates during the Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Championships 2021. Pic by WCF / Steve Seixeiro

Forfar’s Wright, who is also an NHS nurse at Forth Valley Hospital, is engaged to Sochi 2014 silver medallist Greg Drummond.

She was a vital part of Eve Muirhead’s rink who overcame Japan 10-3 in the Olympic final, and in doing so, she got one over husband Drummond – a long-standing joke between the two curlers.

Muirhead, Wright, Hailey Duff, also from Forfar, and Jennifer Dodds secured Team GB’s first and only Olympic gold medal in Beijing in an eventually comfortable win at the Ice Cube.

Curlers Millie Smith, Hailey Duff, Vicky Wright, Eve Muirhead and Jennifer Dodds pose for a photo with their Olympic Games Beijing 2022 gold medals during the Six Nations match between Scotland and France at BT Murrayfield Stadium. Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images

Wright, 28, said: “Straight after the final I said – ‘I’m going to come home with that gold tomorrow and I’m getting bragging rights back.’

“So I phoned him and I was like: ‘I’ve got the bragging rights’. Any time there’s something I don’t want to do, I’m going to bring the medal out and use that, it’s my trump card, I’m getting out of doing stuff.

“But in all seriousness, he’s really happy.”

Wright was an integral part of Team GB’s rise to the curling summit and when Muirhead’s rink followed up Team Mouat’s silver with gold, the nation was swept up in curling fever.

Curling Olympic gold medalist, Vicky Wright from Forfar. Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images

And one element of Team Muirhead’s performance was way the team conducted themselves - smiling and enjoying the competition throughout.

Wright added: “We tried to treat it like every other game – we knew it was a big game and we knew it was going to be a hard one.

“I turned to the girls at the fifth end and said: ‘This is honestly the most fun game of curling I think I’ve ever played’, and we just went out there and had fun. That’s when we play our best.

“It never felt safe until the last stone was thrown when Eve made that absolute pistol on seven, then I was like okay, we’re getting there.

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