Australia will send its strongest ever team to the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics next month, with women making up almost two-thirds of the athletes including breakout star 15-year-old freeskier Indra Brown.

Team chef de mission, Alisa Camplin, will on Friday unveil a team of 53 athletes to compete in Italy – the second-largest Australian Winter selection, and 10 more than the team that brought home a record haul of four medals from Beijing.

With reigning Olympic moguls gold medallist, Jakara Anthony, the spearhead, there

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