Sharpen those blades, dust off the skis and get your stone glistening - the coolest show on earth is just around the corner.
The 2022 Olympic Winter Games is firmly on the horizon with Beijing becoming the first city to stage the Summer and Winter Games when they open on 4 February.
For British athletes who compete across the 109 medal events, 15 disciplines and seven sports, the journey to the Chinese capital started after the curtain closed on PyeongChang in 2018.
But those who do their business on ice and snow are truly firing up Olympic ambitions with the start of the 2021-22 winter sporting season this month.
Staying on track
Beijing itself hosts one of the first events of the campaign with the ISU Short Track World Cup on 21 October, with snowboarding, alpine skiing, freestyle skiing and figure skating also underway that weekend.
2017 world champion and ten-time European champion Elise Christie continues her Olympic journey by campaigning for a third Games in short track speed skating.
Having got a taste of the Games in 2018, Kathryn Thomson and Farrell Treacy will also bid for a place on the start line in one of the most thrilling and unpredictable sports we’ll see in Beijing.
After four World Cup events, the European Short Track Championships are set for Dresden on 14-16 January with the World Championships following the Games in Montreal in March.
Snow business
Team GB won five medals at Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018, the team’s joint-highest winter hauls.
Izzy Atkin - who claimed Britain’s first-ever Olympic skiing medal with slopestyle bronze in South Korea - will hope for a fairytale return alongside 18-year-old sister Zoe, herself a global medallist.
Big Air has been added to the free ski programme for Beijing and the elder Atkin may open her campaign with a World Cup event in that discipline on 22 October in Switzerland.
Men’s and women’s Big Air are among seven new medal events added for the 24th Winter Olympiad, which also includes monobobsleigh and five mixed team events.
Slopestyle specialists James Woods and Gus Kenworthy, aiming for his Team GB debut, mean Britain’s men look equally strong in freestyle skiing.
The Winter X Games will be a key prelude to Beijing for free skiers and snowboarders, taking place from January 21-23 in Aspen, Colorado.
Meanwhile, Katie Ormerod, who became Britain’s first-ever Crystal Globe winner in 2020 in snowboard slopestyle, has unfinished Olympic business after injury curtailed her hopes in PyeongChang.
Ice, ice baby
Team GB have won skeleton medals at every Games in which it has appeared and three straight golds in the women’s event, with 2018 bronze medallist Laura Deas spearheading the charge this time.
Marcus Wyatt and Matt Weston are among those to have emerged in a strong men’s squad, with the World Cup season culminating in the European Championships in St Moritz on 14 January.
Britain qualified two berths in the four-man bobsleigh in 2014 and 2018 and will aim to do so again with drivers Brad Hall and Lamin Deen to the fore, preparing for a first global racing opportunity in Innsbruck on 20 November.
The curling campaign is already underway in earnest and Bruce Mouat and his world silver medal-winning team took victory in their very first overseas competition of Olympic season.
They beat Canada’s world No.1 rink at the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard to build momentum for the run-in to Beijing.
Mouat and co. won a quota place for Team GB at the 2021 World Championships, and the skip did the same alongside Jen Dodds at the mixed doubles equivalent to ensure Britain will appear in the discipline’s Olympic debut.
Places are guaranteed in figure skating, one of the blue riband events of the Winter Games, with Natasha McKay banking a singles quota place and Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson doing the same in the ice dance.
Team GB have also secured spots for alpine skiers, led by Dave Ryding, and cross-country skiers with Andrew Musgrave and Andrew Young continuing to break new ground for Britain in the sport.
That's theme across the board - Great Britain going where they have never gone before in winter sport - aiming to bring it all together and make history in Beijing.
Sportsbeat 2021