Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat both go back to the Olympic Arena with unfinished things after they have been confirmed as part of the respective Great Britain that is in Cortina d’Ampezzo in Cortina d’Ampezzo next year.
Dodds, who returns as the only title defender of Team GB, and Mouat are two of the first batch of 10 athletes whose names have been officially confirmed for the Winter Games of 2026, which take place at a number of locations that were aimed at Milan in February.
The duo would like to improve their painful place of fourth place in the mixed event in Beijing three years ago, while the men’s team of Mouat, who took silver in the Chinese capital, goes to Italy as defending world champions.
“It is our second time and we have much more experience than the last time, so we hope to use that to get a little further,” said Mouat, whose team again Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan, together with alternative Kyle Waddell.
“We have tried to find out the extra one or two percent that we have to do better and it amounted to sports psychology and nutrition. We really focused on these things to try to get better.
“Even six months after the Olympic Games we looked at these things and they helped to win our first world title. Now we have settled ourselves as one of the best teams in the world, so we clearly do many things well.”
Dodds joined a new team led by Olympic debutant Rebecca Morrison after the collapse of the team of Eve Muirhead in the aftermath of their gold medal win. Now retired, Muirhead will be in a different capacity in Milan, such as Chef de Mission of Team GB.
The team of Morrison-also including Dodds, Sophie Jackson, Sophie Sinclair and alternative Fay Henderson, qualified on the basis of a sixth placed finish at this year’s world championship and will go to Milan as a curious mix of Underdogs and defending champions.
“It is clear that we have a target on our back as the title defender, but we have played all these teams before and we are not worried about what they think,” Dodds said.
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“Every game at the Olympic Games is difficult, regardless of whether you end up when the Last Chance qualifications or you have won the last world title.”
For Dodds, who will again work with Mouat, looking for that elusive mixed doublem medal before she turns her focus on the first ladies team to not comprehend Muirhead since 2006, there has been no focus loss, even though the part of the historical success at the Covid-Geticken Beijing Games.
“Winning that gold medal was that I achieved my lifelong dream, something I have dreamed of since I was eight or 10 years old,” Dodds added.
“That was the big thing for me, finding out what I wanted to do in the next four years, adjust my goals again and achieve that goal.
“I want these girls to experience what I have experienced in Beijing. It doesn’t matter if you win one gold medal or 100 gold medals, they are all so special because it is so rare and difficult to reach.”
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