Team GB curlers considering 2030 Winter Olympics in France
Team includes Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Hammy McMillan, Bobby Lammie, and Kyle Waddell
Decision will be made after summer discussions despite being older athletes
Team has secured silver medals in last two Olympic Games
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Team GB's silver medal-winning curling team, consisting of Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Hammy McMillan, Bobby Lammie, and alternate Kyle Waddell, has expressed openness to targeting a return at the 2030 Winter Olympics in France after recently settling for silver in Italy. The team, which arrived as world champions and favorites but ultimately lost to Canada 9-6 in a tight final, revealed they will 'sit down in the summer' to make a definitive decision about their future in competitive curling. Despite being among the older competitors in the sport, with Mouat and Hardie both 33 years old, the team members have indicated they would 'love' to go for gold at the 2030 Games, where they would be approximately 37 years old. McMillan noted that while competitors in elite sports are generally getting younger, 'in terms of being a sports person is quite old, but for curling maybe not.' The team has demonstrated remarkable longevity, having now secured Olympic silver medals at both the 2022 Beijing Games and the current 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, with both finals ending in narrow defeats against Sweden and Canada respectively.
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Olympic competition, Team dynamics, Aging athletes, Curling sport
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Hamilton McMillan (born 13 July 1963) is a Scottish curler. He won a gold medal as skip for the Scottish team at the 1999 World Curling Championships in Saint John, New Brunswick. He has won five gold medals at the European Curling Championships.
Grant Hardie (born 27 March 1992 in Dumfries) is a Scottish curler from Glasgow. He currently plays third on Team Bruce Mouat. With Mouat, Hardie has won gold at the world men's championship in 2023 and 2025 and has captured four European championship titles (2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023) and twelve Gr...
Bruce Mouat (; born 27 August 1994 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. He currently skips his own team out of the Gogar Park Curling Club. Mouat has led his team to two world championship titles in 2023 and 2025, four European championship titles (2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023) and twelve ...
'Never say no' - GB curlers 'open' to 2030 Winters Published 12 minutes ago Team GB's silver medal-winning curling team say they would "love" to go for gold at the 2030 Winter Olympics in France but will "sit down in the summer" before making a decision. Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Hammy McMillan and Bobby Lammie, plus alternate Kyle Waddell, arrived in Italy for this year's Games as world champions and favourites, but were beaten by Canada in a tight encounter that ended 9-6. It was the rink's second runners-up medal following a loss to Sweden in China four years ago. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, McMillan said competitors in elite sport were "getting younger" but added: "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. "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." In a separate interview with BBC Breakfast, Hardie explained: "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. "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." He added: "It was the same when we sat down four years ago after Beijing. What can we do different? How can we get back an change things? "To end up with the same , it's not a wasted four years because it's very special to come home with a silver, it still obviously hurts because you know you wanted the gold." The team have been together for almost a decade with skipper Mouat, 31, believing their closeness has played a key role in their success on the world stage. "We know each personality so well now," he said. "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 al...
