BRITISH wheelchair curling skip Aileen Neilson is not the type to get carried away - and she insists all thoughts of medalling at the Winter Paralympics remain on ice until after the round robin.

Neilson is set to make her second Paralympic appearance in Sochi, but first as skip, having played under Michael McCreadie at Vancouver 2010 and missed out on the play-offs and finished sixth.

McCreadie is no longer part of the team, with Neilson assuming the role of skip - although she faces a tough start with defending champion Jim Armstrong and his Canadian rink first up on Saturday.

Eight further round-robin games follow before the medal matches a week later, but the Strathaven curler is optimistic for her rink of debutants Greg Ewan, Bob McPherson, Jim Gault as well as Angie Malone.

They have taken victories in Ontario and New York over the past 12 months but Neilson, the first female athlete to skip a team at a World Championships, will be taking it one game at a time.

"Obviously our first aim is to make the play-offs, so we have a nine-game round robin and we have to focus on that," said Neilson.

"If we win enough games in that we will make the play-offs and we can go from there. But our first goal is to get through to the play-offs.

"This is my second Paralympics. At your first you don't really know what it is going to be like until you are there and, having been to a couple of World Championships, the Paralympics is very different.

"We're not only part of our team but we're part of Paralympics GB alongside the alpine skiers so it's great to know that we are part of a big team that's in Sochi to do its best."

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