Sexiest Pictures Of Rhona Martin. Rhona Martin, MBE, is a British curler, best known for skipping the British women’s team at the Winter Olympics, 2002. She, along with her team, won the gold medal that year. Later, she skipped for the Scotland curling team both at the European and the World Championships.
Rhona Martin was born as Rhona Howie on October 12, 1966, in Dunlop, Ayrshire, Scotland. Martin skipped the Scotland team in 1998 and won the silver medal in the European Curling Championship in the same year.
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She also returned to lead her team in the Chamonix Championship but narrowly missed the medal placings. Martin won the 2000 Scottish Women’s Curling Championships and was entitled to represent Scotland at the World Curling Championships. They competed against Canada, led by Kelley Law.
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However, Martin’s team ended up losing to Law’s team and then to the Norwegian team. Martin and her team lost against the USA in the 2002 Olympics. The only way to progress into the semi-finals was to get two successive wins again, Sweden and Germany, which was achieved at the end.
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Britain then went up the scoreboard and won the gold medal. Martin’s team became the first British team to do so. Later, Martin was awarded an MBE for her achievements. It is recorded that before the 2006 Winter Olympics, Martin was living under welfare as her husband was struggling with his computer business.
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Martin also thought of quitting curling after moving to government housing but stopped due to the encouragement of her children. She went on to skip the British team at the 2006 Winter Olympics. In 2007, Martin started taking coaching lessons at the UK Sport Elite Coach Programme for three years.
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In 2010, she joined the commentary team to oversee the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, along with Steve Cam. She also appeared in This Morning, A Question of Sport, and The Weakest Link. Martin was appointed as the head coach of the British and Scottish curling squad in 2010 and coached the team at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia.
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Before that, Martin was also a part of the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay, where she carried the flame through Glasgow. Rhona also joined the BBC commentary team at the 2018 Winter Olympics, South Korea.
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