Meet the 17 Scots in Team GB for Winter Olympics

Seventeen Scottish athletes, across four different sports, will be part of Team GB’s 53-strong delegation for this month’s Winter Olympics in Italy.

Some will go as medal favourites. Others with dreams of stepping on to the podium. And a few will measure success in a different way.

The action starts on Wednesday when the mixed curling team take to the ice in Cortina for their opener against Norway (18:05 GMT) live on the BBC Sport website & app and the BBC iPlayer.

Men: Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan, Kyle Waddell (alternate)

Women: Rebecca Morrison, Sophie Jackson, Jennifer Dodds, Sophie Sinclair, Fay Henderson (alternate)

Mixed: Mouat and Dodds

In Beijing four years ago, curling was the only sport to return to Britain with medals. Eve Muirhead’s rink took women’s gold and Mouat’s men claimed silver.

Muirhead is no longer playing – instead, she will lead the overall GB team as chef du mission – but her Bejing team-mate Dodds is.

“Jen and the kids” is how the women’s rink this time label themselves and, while their inexperience means they are not among the favourites, they could find themselves in contention for a podium place if things go their way.

Edinburgh duo Dodds and Mouat will be fancied in the mixed, though, having lost the bronze-medal match last time.

Lewis Gibson: Ice Dance

Anastasia Vaipan-Law: Pairs

Irvine native Gibson and partner Lilah Fear have raised hopes they can end Team GB’s three-decade wait for an Olympic figure skating podium place after claiming medals at four consecutive European Championships.

At last month’s staging, the ‘Disco Brits’ took bronze after performing to a Scottish-themed medley – tartan costumes and all.

Vaipan-Law and partner Luke Digby missed out on a European medal of their own after the Scot fell during a throw in the free skate.

Kirsty Muir: Slopestyle & big air

Chris McCormick: Slopestyle & big air

Kirsty Muir was just 17 when she finished fifth in the Big Air event in Beijing and is in fine form as she approaches her second Games.

The Aberdonian won freeski slopestyle gold at the X Games last week and took silver in the big air event. What chance a medal in Livigno?

Glasgow’s McCormick, meanwhile, will make his Winters debut after missing out on a place at Beijing by the narrowest of margins.

Andrew Musgrave: event tbc

James Clugnet: event tbc

Anna Pryce: event tbc

Musgrave, 35, will make his fifth Games appearance in Italy in what is likely to be a final chance to claim an Olympic medal.

The 35-year-old, who grew up in Aberdeenshire but relocated to Norway 17 years ago, was seventh in the skiathlon in 2018 – still Team GB’s best result in the sport.