Although she is making her debut at the Olympics, Anna Shackley has already made an impression as a rising talent within British cycling.

Coached by Emma Trott, the sister of Olympic champion Laura Kenny, Shackley has been able to reach new heights.

Although expectations are relatively low for any silverware for the 20-year-old, that may suit the rookie on race days for the road race and time trial.

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Tao Geoghegan Hart has been cycling mad from a young age, having followed closely the great achievements of the pioneering Team Sky from the age of 14.

Jump forward and he is now a key part of the Ineos Grenadiers (formerly Team Sky) team.

In only his third Grand Tour, he won the Giro d'Italia last year and will make his debut at the Olympics alongside Ineos team-mate and 2019 Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas in the road race and time trial.

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Although James Heatly's career has been relatively short, it hasn't prevented him from setting some eye-catching records from 10 metres up.

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, he was the youngest athlete of the entire Scottish team and, in 2018, went further to win bronze and become the first Scottish male to win a diving medal since his grandfather, Sir Peter Heatly, did so in 1958.

Another young trailblazer in the diving team will take to the board having been the youngest member of Scotland's team at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Grace Reid went on to win gold in the 2016 and 2018 European Championships and capped off the year earning a similar milestone to James Heatly by winning Scotland's first-ever medal for women's diving.

A gold medal winner in 2012, Scott Brash is looking to return to the summit of show jumping after missing out in Rio when his top two rides picked up injuries.

In an attempt to prevent the same issue recurring, he has three horses in contention in Tokyo - Hello Jefferson, Hello Vincent and Hello Senator.

Let's hope we're not saying goodbye too soon.

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Leaving aside the thorny issue of the very existence of a Team GB football team, there was some disquiet when only two Scots were included in the squad under interim England head coach Hege Riise.

Scotland's recent indifferent results and the fact England's third place at the 2019 Women's World Cup secured qualification perhaps justifies the inclusion of 13 Lionesses. However, whether it was out of diplomacy or a bid to avoid controversy, Kim Little was named as one of three co-captains heading to Japan, along with Wales' Sophie Ingle and England's Steph Houghton.

As one of five survivors of the GB squad that competed in 2012, when they topped their group before losing to Canada in the quarter-finals, and with 140 Scotland caps behind her, there is no doubting Little's experience.

While slightly less dynamic than she was when making her international debut aged 16, the midfielder has put serious injury problems behind her to remain a top-level performer in England's Super League with Arsenal.

Having watching admiringly on TV as Kim Little played for GB at the London Games, Caroline Weir says she is honoured to make it herself this time round.

Not only has the winger established herself in a Manchester City side that finished runners-up in England's Superleague last season but she's been Scotland's outstanding performer in the most recent of her 77 appearances.

Watching her cultured passing and dribbling, it's no surprise to learn that she modelled her trickery on French midfield legend Zinedine Zidane as a youngster.

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Playing beside Caroline Weir at Hibernian and Scotland up to under-17 level, Sarah Robertson felt she had to make the choice between football and hockey - and it certainly worked out for her.

Occupying a similar attacking midfield role to the Manchester City star, she plays in the sport's English top flight with Hampstead & Westminster and has racked up 104 Scotland appearances and 54 for Great Britain.

Robertson will hoping she can help GB avoid the group stage exit in Rio.

Having made her debut in 2008, Sarah Adlington is the most experienced member of the British judo squad, but it is her first Olympics after narrowly missing out on London 2012 and Rio 2016.

Her career highlight came in 2014 when she won Commonwealth Games gold in the +78kg category representing Scotland, where she has lived since relocating to Edinburgh in 2005.

Can the multiple World Tour medallist, who was fifth at the 2018 World Championships, pin one down on her Olympic debut ahead of her 35th birthday on 5 August?

The only debutant in the GB modern pentathlon team, Jo Muir is looking to make a good impression in Japan following her gold medal at the European Championships in 2019.

The sport itself involves fencing, swimming, shooting, running and horse riding in which the jockeys only have 20 minutes to get to know their steed.

Ranked sixth in the world, Muir is bound to have some Dr Dolittle capabilities.

Maddie Arlett won a bronze medal in the lightweight women's single sculls at the 2019 World Rowing Championships but has to make do with travelling to Japan as a spare rower.

She has won medals previously as part of double sculls and quad teams, so maybe the rower with a love for a good prison documentary will still get her chance to break out into the competitive waters.

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Despite being a sport-mad teenager who took part in gymnastics, swimming, golf, basketball and hockey, Karen Bennett only picked up an oar for the first time aged 18 after seeing an appeal on the news by Olympic legend Sir Steve Redgrave for tall athletes to try the sport.

She ended her first full season in the GB senior ranks by winning a silver medal with the women's eight at the Rio Olympics in 2016.

Bennett has gone on to win European silver medals in 2018 and 2019 but has transitioned to the women's coxless four, where she is joined by fellow Scot Rowan McKellar, for her second Games.

Having started the sport aged 13 at City of Oxford, graduating from Yale University and latterly representing the famous Leander Club, Sholto Carnegie was part of the coxless four that took European gold in 2019 before following it up with world bronze.

Sitting in the stroke seat - the furthest forward and most prestigious - where the hardest puller in the crew is tasked with setting the boat's rhythm, he will be hoping for a similarly smooth transition at the very least after his team struck gold at this year's Europeans in Italy.

Katherine Douglas found she had a natural talent for rowing after taking up the sport as a way to keep fit at Oxford Brookes University and has been training full-time at the Leander Club in Henley since 2012.

A serious disc injury and then a 2017 car crash that left her with a back injury and concussion hampered her progress.

However, she still finished that season with World Cup silver and bronze medals as part of the women's eight squad and another podium finish in Tokyo would be just the medicine.

Lucy Glover only made her senior GB debut at this year's European Championships but emerged as a gold medallist as part of the quadruple sculls to cement her reputation as the country's brightest young talent.

That was achieved while balancing her sporting commitments with a psychology degree at the University of Edinburgh, where she is in her final year.

But she already has a golden mindset having won the quadruple sculls titles at the World Rowing U23s Championships in 2017 and 2019.

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Angus Groom underwent hip surgery after being part of the GB quadruple sculls that finished fifth in Rio.

But the Glaswegian with a masters degree in stem cells and regeneration has made a full and comprehensive recovery to be selected in the same boat.

Harry Leask joins fellow Scot Angus Groom and two other Leander Club colleagues, Thomas Barras and Jack Beaumont, in the quadruple sculls heading for Tokyo to justify his decision to leave Edinburgh for Henley at the age of 16.

The former agricultural engineering student's reputation grew with a European bronze medal in the double with Beaumont and a fourth-place finish in the World Championships single, both in 2018, and the quad they will be hoping to build on their own fifth-place finish at this year's European Championships.

Rowan McKellar says she has been "growing lots of flowers" during lockdown.

Having been coached by her parents in Broxbourne, her rowing career really started to bloom during her time at the University of California.

She has shown her versatility with a World Cup bronze alongside Hattie Taylor in 2018, a European silver in the eight in the 2019 European Championships, followed by Euro bronze this year in the coxless four and is joined by her housemate in the four competing in Japan.

Doctor - and doctor's daughter - Polly Swann should have no problem dealing with pandemic restrictions in Japan considering she studied for a degree in global health policy.

Indeed, she balanced training for Tokyo with rounds on the ward as she returned to support the NHS during the first wave of Covid-19.

Swann, whose family moved to Edinburgh from Lancaster when she was three, is already a GB hero on the water having won a silver in Rio in the women's eight and is going for gold this time, renewing a partnership with Helen Glover in the women's pair that won them the world title in 2013.

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The Hong Kong Sevens is one of the most famous rugby tournaments, so it is no surprise that Alec Coombes grew to love the shortened game as a kid before his family moved to Somerset.

The Glasgow Warriors centre, who qualifies through his father, has himself become a sevens specialist and been a core member of the Scotland squad since 2018.