"But the competitory broadside of maine ne'er disappeared," she added. "The much clip I spent astir elite athletics and curling, the much I began to wonderment whether I inactive had thing to springiness connected the ice.
"I cognize however demanding the roadworthy to an Olympics is, but I americium returning from a precise antithetic place. I consciousness refreshed, physically beardown and excited by the challenge. I would not beryllium coming backmost unless I believed I could execute astatine that level again."
Muirhead's golden medal-winning team-mate Vicky Drummond is besides returning to the athletics to rival her - and a 3rd subordinate of that rink, Jen Dodds - successful the GB Curling mixed doubles programme.
Drummond, 32, says being portion of the BBC Sport squad successful Cortina successful February rekindled her passionateness for competing, and that she wants to amusement her young girl Sophie that "becoming a mum doesn't mean your ambitions person to end".
"More than anything, I privation my instrumentality to mean thing beyond the ice," said the intensive attraction nurse, who volition spouse Euan Kyle.
"I privation Sophie to turn up knowing that it's ne'er excessively precocious to pursuit thing that excites you. If she grows up believing that thing is imaginable due to the fact that she watched maine try, past this travel volition already person been worthy it.
"I person nary thought wherever this roadworthy volition lead, but I'm excited to find out."
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