First names confirmed for Team GB at Winter Olympics

Jennifer Dodds is aiming for back-to-back Winter Olympic golden medals, pinch nan curling teams nan first officially confirmed Team GB athletes for Milan-Cortina 2026.

And, pinch a metallic badge connected their debut, Bruce Mouat and his rink are aiming to spell 1 amended successful Italy adjacent year.

Mouat, on pinch Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan Jr, were narrowly beaten by Sweden successful nan 2022 final.

Dodds teamed up pinch Eve Muirhead, Vicky Wright and Hailey Duff successful Beijing arsenic Britain topped nan podium for nan first clip successful 20 years.

This time, she will beryllium joined by Rebecca Morrison, Sophie Sinclair and skip Sophie Jackson.

"Winning golden past clip was a dream travel true, truthful I'm excited to get backmost there, evidently pinch a caller team," Dodds told BBC Scotland.

"We've been building a batch complete nan past mates of seasons and I'm excited to spot wherever nan trajectory of our capacity tin spell complete nan adjacent 8 months.

"I've known a mates of nan girls for rather a while, but that's nan thing, we astir apt had to build that teamwork, build nan friendships and I consciousness for illustration we've done that really well. I deliberation you tin spot successful our performances, our teamwork has improved, and a large portion of that is connection and knowing each other.''

Mouat's Scotland rink won World Championship golden for a 2nd clip this year, having been European champions connected 4 occasions.

Now nan Edinburgh curler wants to adhd Olympic golden to their database of achievements.

"We were adjacent past time," he said. "It came down to a matter of centimetres successful nan final. It was reliable astatine nan clip but we've really bounced backmost and sewage our 2 world championships and now we've sewage 10 Grand Slam titles, truthful we person a batch of momentum."

Mouat and Dodds will squad up again to compete successful nan mixed doubles, having mislaid retired successful nan 2022 bronze badge match.

"We're friends first and foremost, but we are team-mates arsenic well," explained Dodds. "He tin beryllium aggravated connected nan crystal but he's 1 of nan funniest group I cognize disconnected nan ice. He ever puts a grin connected my face.

"We had nan World Championships successful April, and we sewage metallic there, and I felt for illustration that was benignant of wherever we were, backmost to wherever we were from a mates of years ago. What we're wanting to spell and strive for, is that golden badge astatine nan Olympics.''

Mouat added: "Jen and I are awesome friends and we person been since we were astir 8 aliases nine. It's conscionable truthful overmuch nosy to get to spell backmost to 1 of nan pinnacles of our athletics and play pinch personification that you've played pinch for specified a agelong time.

"In Beijing we were very adjacent to winning a medal. We were up successful our semi-final and past we ended up conscionable throwing it distant unfortunately, but we learned a batch from that experience."

The 25th version of nan Winter Games will return spot betwixt 6-22 February 2026, crossed 16 disciplines.