Getty ImagesThe opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics takes place later on Friday – and 17 Scots are vying to leave Italy with medals.
Mariah Carey and Andrea Bocelli will perform at the San Siro Olympic Stadium in Milan to officially kickstart the Games at 7pm UK time.
The 25th Winter Olympics will feature almost 3,000 athletes from 90 countries competing for 116 medals across 24 days of competition.
Team GB have sent a total of 53 athletes to the Games.
STV News takes a look at the Scots going for gold over the next few weeks.
Curling
Women’s team: Jennifer Dodds, Rebecca Morrison, Sophie Jackson, Sophie Sinclair, Fay Henderson (alternate)
Men’s team: Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan, Kyle Waddell (alternate)
Curling has the biggest cohort of Scottish athletes at Milano Cortina, with the entrants split across the women’s, men’s, and mixed doubles events.
The women’s team arrive as defending champions but only Jennifer Dodds remains from the side that won gold in Beijing in 2022.
The remaining four members of the team – Rebecca Morrison, Sophie Jackson, Sophie Sinclair and Fay Henderson – are all making their Olympic debuts.
Dodds is also competing in the mixed doubles with Bruce Mouat and they have already been in action – securing victory over their Norwegian and Estonian counterparts for two consecutive Team GB wins.
Getty ImagesThe pair are seeking to build on their bronze medal defeat from last time out.
Meanwhile, the men’s team are looking to build on their silver medal finish in Beijing.
Freestyle Skiing
Talented freestyle skier Kirsty Muir is one of Scotland’s big medal hopes.
The 21-year-old from Aberdeen will be competing in her second Winter Olympics, having competed as a teenager in Beijing.
Getty ImagesMuir already has two World Cup gold medals this term, one in Slopestyle and one in Big Air, along with a gold and silver at the X Games.
She only returned to top-level competition last February, having spent the entirety of 2024 on the sidelines after rupturing her anterior cruciate ligament in a crash in December 2023.
Muir will be joined by fellow Scot Chris McCormick, who is making his Olympic debut.
Figure Skating
Scotsman Lewis Gibson and his British-Canadian partner Lilah Fear are aiming to end a long wait for a Team GB medal in figure skating.
It’s been 32 years since that last happened.
Ice dancers Gibson and Fear have made the podium in four successive European Championships and picked up bronze in the World Championships last year.
In January, the pair won bronze at the European Championships in Sheffield with their rhythm dance to a Spice Girls medley and a free dance that paid homage to Gibson’s Scottish roots.
Getty ImagesThe duo were dressed in tartan and skated to a mix of The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond, Auld Lang Syne and The Proclaimers hit I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles).
Dundee-based Anastasia Vaipan-Law is another Scottish figure skating medal hopeful. She is partnered with English skater Luke Digby in the pairs event, and the two are five-time British champions.
Cross-Country Skiing
Team GB has a healthy Scottish influence on the Italian slopes, with three Scots involved in the cross-country events.
Andrew Musgrave spearheads the trio at his fifth Winter Olympics, 16 years on from his debut at Vancouver in 2010.
Getty ImagesThey will be joined by James Clugnet, who grew up in the Alps, and 24-year-old Anna Pryce.
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