Team GB curling rink would 'love to be' at 2030 Winter Olympic Games in France for third chance at gold medal

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Team GB won silver in the men's curling at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina as they were beaten in the gold-medal match by Canada, but team members have said they would "love" to be back at the Games in 2030 for another chance at taking home gold after two silver medals in a row. The 2030 Winter Olympics in France would be a third, and possibly final chance, for the quartet.

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Team GB's men's curling team have said that they would "love" to be at the 2030 Winter Olympics in France to win a gold medal after claiming silver in Italy.

Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Hammy McMillan, Bobby Lammie and alternate Kyle Waddell had a rollercoaster journey to the final at the Milano Cortina Games.

After losing three straight matches, they rallied to reach the semi-finals and then beat Switzerland in a thrilling clash to reach the final.

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But they saw a gold medal snatched from them at the death against Canada, leaving Team GB with silver at the second successive Winter Olympics.

"I'm not going to say no. I'd love to be there again in 2030 to try to get that one medal we don't have," McMillan said.

"Me and Grant are the two oldest in the team at 33 right now, so we'd be 37, which in terms of being a sports person is quite old, but for curling maybe not."

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The quartet were together for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, where they lost to Sweden in the final, and Mouat has led them to two World Championship titles in 2023 and 2025 plus four European championship titles.

McMillan and Hardie are both 33, with captain Mouat aged 31 and Lammie the youngest at 29.

Hardie said that whether they can make it to another Games remains to be seen, but they will sit down in the summer and begin to decide.

"I think that's why myself and Hammy were quite emotional on the podium. At the age of 33, you don't know if you'll get to another Olympics," he said.

"One was a dream, two was even better. Two medals from two is amazing.

"I think we'll sit down in the summer and see what the next four years looks like.

"It was the same when we sat down four years ago after Beijing. What can we do differently? How can we get back and change things?

"To end up with the same [medal], it's not a wasted four years because it's very special to come home with a silver, [but] it still obviously hurts because you know you wanted the gold."

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In putting the rink together, they carefully considered each member's personality traits and they have come to know each other's characters and nature very well.

"Bruce is that caring person, Grant's the analytical data-driven [one], always thinks before he speaks. I don't," McMillan added.

"I think it's great having four very different characters to help build one team," Hardie added.

"Nine years together working on it, it's something that clicked pretty early and it's went from strength to strength."

Skipper Mouat added: "We know each personality so well now. It's quite important you're saying the right thing to each person to get the best out of them.

"It's things we've worked on with sports psychologists. I think it's all worked in our favour and now we're sitting here with two Olympic medals. It's testament to all the hard work we've put in."

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