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“When you’re watching major sports, like an NFL game, they’ll mike up one player, and you get to see a little bit more into them. As curlers, because we’re miked up all the time for TV because it makes it so much better, I think people really start feeling a connection with us as individuals, and I think that has helped it stay on TV. Because people are like, ‘What are they going to say next?’”

When his father, a successful rugby player, realised what had happened, he drove and picked Mike up on the side of the road.

“Absolutely terrifying for me. I just couldn’t do it. Literally couldn’t. I’d turn the mike up and I’d be like—” She mimed being struck mute.

Mike: Up until the moment the news broke, everyone I spoke to had expected de Blasio to back the cap, come what may.

The camera is pointed toward the floor, and I am dragging Mike up to the roof.