Scotland skip Bruce Mouat believes the ache he nonetheless feels from lacking out on a medal ultimately yr’s World Championship is an effective factor to take into this yr’s competitors.
His rink prime the worldwide rankings and can begin as favourites when the occasion will get below approach in Moose Jaw, Canada on Saturday.
Talking to BBC Scotland final October, he admitting to taking himself away from curling and being “embarrassed” by how he performed after his rink misplaced to Italy within the bronze medal match a couple of months earlier.
However now the 30-year-old thinks the expertise might assist because the workforce look to win a fourth medal at world stage.
“That ache just isn’t essentially a nasty factor to nonetheless really feel,” mentioned Mouat. “It’s virtually factor to recollect how that scenario felt on the time. To have the ability to develop from it’s the extra essential half.
“Not eager to really feel that once more is sort of essential for us and we all know that we’re adequate to get to these latter phases and on the latter phases we simply wish to carry out just a little higher than we did final yr.”
Mouat’s rink already has a exceptional haul of medals, amongst them Winter Olympic silver and world gold from 2023, the final time the competitors was held in Canada.
Regardless of their spectacular checklist of achievements, the skip admits having the possibility to play in Canada at a worlds once more “fills each single roller with pleasure no matter the place you’re from.”
He explains: “The one factor that might be higher for us can be profitable a World Championship in Scotland. Sadly, we now have not had that chance but, however fingers crossed in some unspecified time in the future.
“Canada is unquestionably the following step down I suppose. The group perceive the game, they love all of the curlers. It is perhaps (like) Wimbledon for tennis. It is fairly cool.”
