Scotland’s Haggis Winter Olympic Bobsleigh Team have taken full advantage of the first proper snowfall of 2026, heading deep into the Highlands for their inaugural training session.
The squad is made up entirely of the sons of the legendary 1988 Scottish Bobsleigh Team, whose unlikely journey to sporting fame was later dramatised in the 1993 cult classic Haggis Runnings, Despite drunkenly crashing towards the end of the circuit.
Raised on stories of frozen tracks, questionable funding, and pushing heavy sleds uphill because there was no ice yet, the new generation insist this moment has been “a long time coming”.
Training footage shows the team refining their starts, debating steering techniques, and repeatedly stopping to ask if anyone brought the flask, all under the watchful eye of their fathers, who maintain that “this was exactly how we prepared back then, although we were a tad drunker.”
The team will now enter the international qualification circuit with hopes of securing a place at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, where they aim to do what has never been done before, bring bobsleigh gold back to Scotland.
Officials remain cautiously optimistic, noting that while the sled is faster, the technology more advanced, and the athletes better prepared… the alcohol is still flowing in this generation of haggis.
