Meet the 17 Scots in Team GB for Winter Olympics
Lewis Gibson, Jen Dodds, Bruce Mouat and Kirsty Muir (left to right) all go to Italy with medal hopes
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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.
That is two days before the official start date for the Games but, as the 25th staging of the event looms, who are the Scottish athletes to look out for?
Curling
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.
And Mouat's rink are the team to beat in the men's event. For them, anything less than gold would be a disappointment.
Dodds, left, is the experienced head alongside Henderson, Jackson, Morrison and Sinclair
Figure skating
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.
So the Dundee-based skater - who is the partner of Dundee United captain Ross Graham - will be looking to make amends in Milan.
Freestyle skiing
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.
His multiple top-20 World Cup finishes last year in both his events helped him qualify this time.
Cross-country skiing
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.
He will be joined by France-born Clugnet and Canada-native Pryce. Both qualify for Team GB by virtue of being Snowsport Scotland members, with Pryce having family links to Aberdeen and James having spent a chunk of his junior career in Scotland.
