[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Weren't the Scots given independence a few years back? Why isn't this a Scot win? Why is China allowed to have both a Chinese and a Hong Kong team? Just wondering. (^:

[MeekOneGOP]

Enquiring minds wanna know! :o)

[Eala]

Weren't the Scots given independence a few years back? Why isn't this a Scot win?

Just like the English. See something good, and suddenly it's theirs! *\:-|

(Sigh. As a child I often watched the curling, but then the family moved to miserably hot California!)

[Tanya Featherstonehaugh]

At the moment, the Olympics teams (Summer and Winter) represent Great* Britain rather than each separate nation of the Union. There are plans to change this in the next few years, I believe.

As it stands at the moment, though, it's celebrated as a British victory rather than a purely Scottish one. Torville and Dean are English, but again, the whole of Britain celebrated their wins, not just England. Fair's fair.

* This title doesn't mean what most people assume it does.