David Murdoch will lead the GB curling team to Vancouver in his second consecutive Olympics as skipper. The 31-year-old will be joined by Euan Byers, Ewan MacDonald, Peter Smith and Graeme Connal and hopes the reigning World Champion team has what it takes to pick up those elusive Olympic Gold medals.

Murdoch said: “It is official that we are the team that is going to Vancouver so that’s great and now we can really look forward to the next seven or eight weeks or so, the final preparations, and just get in the groove for going to Vancouver.”

Failing to retain their title as European Champions on their home turf this year, Murdoch believes the team can use the experience to their advantage.

“We have had a few problems this season, just with injuries and difficulties like that, so I don’t think we are going to beat ourselves up too much about the Europeans.

“You never like losing a title but there are a lot of positives that we took from it, we were all playing well, we were top of our stats for the weeks and I think things are going to come along nicely.

“We have certainly been looking at tightening up a few of our shots, maybe some of our shots that we weren’t so strong at the Europeans, so we are practising hard on those.”

The team, who finished fourth at the 2006 Turin Olympics, face a tough couple of events against some the top Canadian teams but say they are looking forward to proving their talent.

“You think back to Turin and that heartbreaking shot the Finnish skipper made against us to put us out the gold medal game so that has always been at the back your mind for the last four years and something you want to avenge.

“The Olympics have come round, it’s only a month away and we want to try and get that gold medal this time. That’s the one that is missing from the trophy cabinet - that would be extra special to have a chance of winning that. Everything we have done over the last four years has been geared towards the Olympics and I think we are doing a lot of things right just now.

“Obviously you are going to need a little bit of luck and a few breaks during the week and hopefully we get that. This teams is extremely capable of doing well in the round robin and then from there, the semi-final and final. Hopefully, we will get a crack at the medal.”