It's been a rollercoaster two years for Aileen Neilson but the Scottish wheelchair curling ace is determined things are back on track a year out from the Paralympic Games.

Neilson is currently out in PyeongChang as Scotland skip at the World Wheelchair Curling Championships, the competition also serving as a test event ahead of the 2018 Winter Paralympics.

Neilson, 45 can rest safe in the knowledge that whatever happens Great Britain will be back in PyeongChang having already secured the necessary points.

However, the journey to South Korea has been bumpy after Neilson and Scotland finished eighth at the 2015 World Championships and were relegated to the B level.

It was a far cry from the bronze medal Neilson won for ParalympicsGB at the 2014 Sochi Games, but the squad bounced back and reached the final of the World B Championships in November – where they lost to Finland – to earn this latest trip to PyeongChang.

And now she is out there with today [Wednesday] marking exactly a year to go until the 2018 Winter Paralympics, Neilson is only looking forward.

“There was disappointment back in 2015 but we certainly did well at the World B Championships in Norway and are delighted to be back at the A’s,” she said.

“You generally learn more from a defeat or a disappointment than from a win and we were in the B Championships for a reason.

“But we changed a few things around and our coach Sheila Swan kept believing in us and we are back where we belong now.

“Our ultimate goal is to improve on the bronze medal we won in Sochi and although we are taking it one game at a time we are in a much better place now than we were a year ago.

“So with a year to go until the 2018 Paralympics and being out in PyeongChang it is a good time to have a think and get used to everything, although we know we have a tough job first.”

ParalympicsGB had in 2014 its most successful Paralympic Winter Games in history – winning six medals in total.

But Neilson admits there is also plenty more at stake as she and the team look to entice more people to the sport of wheelchair curling.

“I think the success we had at the 2012 Paralympics in London highlighted a change of atmosphere for disability sport,” she added.

“We were able to kick on to Sochi and then Rio not just in terms of success but also coverage as we went from 50 hours to 80 hours in Rio.

“So hopefully that trend can continue and we can get more people not just interested in the sport but also taking it up and trying it. We want more people to join in.”

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