Scotland’s newly crowned world champions in curling are now turning their attention towards winning gold at next year’s Winter Olympics.
Bruce Mouat and his team scooped the nation’s sixth world title at the championships in Canada last month.
They defeated Switzerland in the final match on April 6 with a 5-4 win in Saskatchewan to add World Championship glory to their hat-trick of wins in the first three Grand Slam of Curling events this season.
Mouat and his teammates Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, and Hammy McMillan made history by becoming the first team to win the trophy after coming through the quarter-finals, while others went straight into the last four.
Scotland beat reigning champions Sweden before overcoming hosts Canada in the semi-finals.
And the skip is now looking to go one better than the silver medal they won in Beijing three years ago by going for gold in Italy.
He said: “We’ve been together for eight years.
“The first meetings that we had, we were planning on winning the Olympic gold together, so there’s not much motivation needed.
“It was just that’s what we’re going to drive towards. And yeah, it’s going to be a good build-up to it. And we’re going to give it everything we’ve got.”
Next year’s Winter Olympics get underway in Milan in just eight months with the opening ceremony scheduled for February 6, 2026.
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