We really couldn't have done any more. We trained our hearts out and prepared as well as we could and came here and had some great performances and beat a lot of good teams but just never quite got the breaks.
"David Murdoch"
/ Third = Greg Drummond
/ Second = Scott Andrews (curler)/Scott Andrews
/ Lead = Michael Goodfellow (curler)/Michael Goodfellow
/ Alternate = Tom Brewster
/ World Championship appearances = 6 (2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013)
/ European Championship appearances = 11 (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
/ Olympic appearances = 3 (2006, 2010, 2014)
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"David Murdoch" (born 17 April 1978) is a Scottish curling/curler from Lockerbie. As the Scotland Skip (curling)/skip, he and his former team of Ewan MacDonald, Warwick Smith, Euan Byers and Peter Smith (curler)/Peter Smith are the 2006 and 2009 World Curling Championship/World Curling Champions. Representing Great Britain at the Olympics/Great Britain, he has been skip at three Winter Olympics, Curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics/Torino 2006, finishing fourth, Curling at the 2010 Winter Olympics/Vancouver 2010, finishing fifth and Curling at the 2014 Winter Olympics/Sochi 2014, where he won an Olympic silver medal.
More David Murdoch on Wikipedia.It is hard to take because the chance was there. It will be with me for a long time but I am hoping we will get the chance to bury it at the next Olympics.
We are all very well and looking forward to it. We had a really excellent four or five days of intensive training and a few practice games at our holding camp in Lucerne in Switzerland. We just can't wait to get to the venue and get on the ice.
It's devastating. We wanted that bronze medal every bit as much as we wanted to win the semi-final. We had given some great performances over the last week but just came out on the wrong end of it.
It made it hard to come back.
We are all getting on fine and our third place in the European Championships showed we can play well together. We topped the round robin section in that tournament and were a bit disappointed to end up with the bronze, but that was a marker and I'd like to think there's more improvement to come.
I'm happy because I've got a great team behind me.
It feels fantastic to finally get started after all the build-up. We are not quite used to the ice yet but it was important to get a good start. When we've started well in the past, we have always done well.
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