Four years is a long time to wait to right a wrong.

In Beijing in 2022, Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds forfeited a lead in their mixed doubles curling semi-final against Norway. Gold was gone. Silver too.

Even bronze evaded them against an inspired Sweden the following day.

On Wednesday, in the snowy splendour of Cortina d’Ampezzo in northern Italy, the chance will come for the Team GB duo to make amends as they face the Norwegians again in the first of nine round-robin matches at the 2026 Games.

In the first action of this year’s event, the childhood friends from Edinburgh will reprise their rivalry with the husband and wife team of Magnus Nedregotten and Kristin Skaslien, who took silver four years ago after claiming bronze in 2018.

“That first game that we played at the mixed doubles was the most nervous either of us have ever been in a game,” Mouat said earlier this week.

“And then when we got to the semi, that feeling came back. But this time, we have experience and we’re going to rely heavily on that.”