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The curling competitions of the 2022 Winter Olympics were held at the Beijing National Aquatics Centre, one of the Olympic Green venues. Curling competitions were scheduled for every day of the games, from February 2 to February 20. [1] This was the eighth time that curling was part of the Olympic program.
The men's curling tournament of the 2022 Winter Olympics was held at the Beijing National Aquatics Center from 9 to 19 February 2022. [1] Ten nations competed in a round robin preliminary round, and the top four nations at the conclusion of the round robin qualified for the medal round.
The mixed doubles curling tournament of the 2022 Winter Olympics was held at the Beijing National Aquatics Center from 2 to 8 February 2022. [1] Ten nations competed in a round robin preliminary round, and the top four nations at the conclusion of the round robin (Norway, Italy, Great Britain, and Sweden) qualified for the medal round. [2]
This is a chronological summary of the major events of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and venues near neighboring towns of Yanqing and Chongli in the People's Republic of China. [1] Competition began on 2 February with the first matches in the group stages of the curling events. The opening ceremony was held two days later on 4 February.
The United States competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from February 4 to 20, 2022. [1] [2] On January 24, 2022, the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee named a team of 224 athletes. [3] Curler John Shuster and speed skater Brittany Bowe were named U.S. flagbearers for the opening ceremony.
A total of 10 teams in each tournament (5 athletes per team) will qualify for a quota of 100 athletes in curling at the 2022 Winter Olympics.A further 10 mixed doubles pairs will qualify for a total of 20 athletes.
Qualification for the 2022 Paralympics was based on rankings in the 2019, 2020, and 2021 World Wheelchair Curling Championships. [2] The qualification points are allotted based on the nations' final rankings at the World Championships. The points are distributed as shown in the table below.
Eve Muirhead OBE (born 22 April 1990) is a Scottish former curler from Perth and the skip of the British Olympic Curling team. [2] Muirhead and the GB team became Olympic champions at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.