Team GB's men's curling team, fresh from a silver medal at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics, will compete against each other in the upcoming Rock League franchise. Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Hammy McMillan, and Bobby Lammie have signed up for the league starting in April. The players will take a break after the Olympics before deciding their future paths.
The four curlers from Team GB—Mouat, Hardie, McMillan, and Lammie—secured a second consecutive silver medal at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. They reached the playoffs after a dramatic run, delivering their strongest performance against Switzerland to earn the medal, though they fell to Canada in the final.
Reflecting on the achievement, Hardie expressed pride despite the outcome: "There has not been a lot of sleep, especially that first night. We owed it to ourselves to have a few drinks together and celebrate the week we had as much as it didn’t end in the way we would have liked. It was still a fantastic achievement. We are very proud to come back with a medal for Great Britain, especially with all the support we have had back home. The whole nation put their support behind us. The number of messages throughout the week was really heartwarming. It makes you appreciate it but also even more gutted that we couldn’t deliver a gold medal for everybody."
Now, attention shifts to the Rock League, a new curling franchise set to launch in April. For the first time in nearly a decade, the tight-knit team will face off against one another. Hardie, who will be skipped by American Korey Dropkin, described the prospect as "a really exciting prospect, it is going to be very competitive. Playing against the boys you have played with for nine years will be different and interesting, a new challenge. We will get a nice big break in the summer and decide after that what the future does look like."
Mouat will partner with Jen Dodds, McMillan with Italian Joël Retornaz, and Lammie with Sweden’s Niklas Edin and Seol Ye-eun. Lammie noted the change: "It will be a little weird at first, it has been a while since we played against each other. It will be quite cool and some change to play with different people, it will give us new perspective. It will be interesting to see how that unfolds. It will definitely be competitive amongst us, and we will all want to beat each other."
The group hopes the league builds on the Olympic momentum, which drew record viewership in the UK via TNT Sports on discovery+. Lammie added: "We would love to get more people involved in the sport, to try it themselves and tune into these other competitions that we play. Some TV coverage of them would be amazing... If people have easier access to it, hopefully more people will tune in and help grow the sport."
