The Queen has congratulated Group GB girls’s curling staff for his or her “excellent efficiency” to win the UK’s first gold medal on the Beijing Olympics.
Hours after her coronavirus prognosis, a message from the Queen was posted from the Royal Household Twitter account by which the monarch provided the profitable curlers her “warmest congratulations” after their 10-3 remaining victory over Japan.
The staff of Eve Muirhead, Vicky Wright, Jennifer Dodds and Hailey Duff, plus alternate Mili Smith, gained Britain’s first gold medal on the ultimate day of the 2022 Winter Olympic Video games.
In her message, the Queen wrote: “I ship my warmest congratulations to the Group GB girls’s curling staff in your excellent efficiency in profitable the gold medal on the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Video games, following the silver medal achieved by the lads’s curling staff yesterday.
“I do know that your native communities and other people all through the UK will be part of me in sending our good needs to you, your coaches and the family and friends who’ve supported you in your nice success.”
It comes after an announcement from Buckingham Palace that the 95-year-old monarch had examined constructive for Covid-19 and is experiencing “gentle cold-like signs”.
Buckingham Palace confirmed that she had been in direct contact together with her eldest son and inheritor, the Prince of Wales, the week he had the an infection.
Group GB’s girls’s curling staff beat Group Japan with a rating of 10-3 within the remaining, which was watched by nearly 700,000 folks within the UK within the early hours of Sunday.
The win got here after the lads’s curling staff gained the silver medal on Saturday. Muirhead mentioned the expertise was “a rollercoaster journey for the entire staff”, after they got here near not qualifying for the Video games attributable to a Covid outbreak among the many gamers and barely making it to the semi-finals.
The staff was additionally congratulated by Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon, who tweeted: “Such an incredible achievement Group Muirhead #TeamGB – congratulations on Olympic [gold medal emoji].”
Further reporting by PA
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