Our Olympic Stars
27th February 2002Great Britain's Olympic gold winning curling team have been given a rousing reception on their return to the UK. The all-Scottish women's team were greeted by crowds of well-wishers, photographers and television camera crews at Heathrow Airport.
The five-member squad, dressed in Team GB tracksuits with their gold medals around their necks, flew in from Calgary in Canada after their success last week in the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.
They then travelled on to Glasgow where they were given an even more enthusiastic welcome by friends, family and Scotland's First Minister, Jack McConnell.
Rhona Martin, Margaret Morton, Fiona MacDonald, Debbie Knox and Janice Rankin won the first GB Winter Olympics gold since the success of ice skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean at the Sarajevo Winter Games in 1984.