Winter Olympics 2022 LIVE: Curling mixed doubles as Team GB face Sweden in Beijing

Curling will kick off the 24th edition of the Winter Olympics in Beijing today, two days before the opening ceremony.

It will be the mixed doubles competition at the “Ice Cube” National Aquatics Centre in Beijing, with Canada’s mixed doubles champion John Morris linking up with Rachel Homan, who did not feature for the women’s team in 2018, looking to retain their gold medal as the favourites.

Great Britain are in action early too with a match against Sweden, and Team GB will feature reigning world champions Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds, who took that world crown while representing their native Scotland.

Mouat will be gunning for gold in the men’s competition during the second week of the Games in one of GB’s best hopes of landing medals. “To actually be getting to the point where we’re seen as a really good medal opportunity, not only in the men’s game but also potentially in mixed doubles, it is just so exciting. I’m trying to keep my head out of the clouds,” he said.

Follow live updates below from the Winter Olympics in Beijing:

Winter Olympics 2022

• Team GB in action against Sweden in curling at 12:05pm GMT

• Opening ceremony for Beijing 2022 on Friday

• Team GB eyeing more curling success as Winter Olympics begin

• Which sports are in Winter Olympics? Full list of 2022 events

• Fearless Katie Ormerod ready to seize moment at Beijing’s ‘spectacular’ slopestyle course

Team GB eyeing more curling success as Winter Olympics begin

10:30 , Jack Rathborn

One Brit has already walked away from Beijing’s Aquatics Centre with two Olympic gold medals, and the second might not even get their feet wet.

With the Water Cube transformed into the Ice Cube, curlers Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds both have a shot at emulating Rebecca Adlington’s 2008 double.

And Mouat, a promising junior swimmer himself, needs no reminding of that fact

Team GB eyeing more curling success as Winter Olympics begin

Five best Team GB medal hopes for the Winter Olympics

10:43 , Harry Latham-Coyle

It’s a tough start for the Great British pair. Sweden are making their Olympic debut in the mixed doubles but took bronze at the last World Championships, losing a narrow semi-final to rivals Norway after going unbeaten in the round robin phase.

But, as the reigning world champions, Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds will be right among the contenders to take the mixed doubles crown come 8 February. Which other Team GB athletes could make the podium in Beijing? Here are five to look out for...

Five best Team GB medal hopes for 2022 Winter Olympics

Which sports are in Winter Olympics? Full list of 2022 events

10:29 , Jack Rathborn

Beijing makes history when it becomes the first city to host both a Summer and Winter Olympics in 2022.

14 years on from the 2008 Games in China, the world’s best athletes on snow and ice travel to Beijing for the 24th international multisport winter event.

More medals will be won than ever before, with 109 events scheduled across more than two weeks of action.

Which sports are in Winter Olympics? Full list of 2022 events

Fearless Katie Ormerod ready to seize moment at Beijing’s ‘spectacular’ slopestyle course

10:25 , Jack Rathborn

Katie Ormerod will certainly need to embrace that snowboarders’ motto of ‘going big or going home’ after taking a first peak her Winter Olympic playground.

The former World Cup champion is considered one of Team GB’s hottest medal prospects in this weekend’s snowboard slopestyle - and admitted the ‘huge’ course at the Genting Snow Park had her jittering with nerves and excitement.

Slopestyle invokes skiers and snowboarders taking on a gravity defying plunge on course pitted with rails and jumps, grinding, spinning, flipping and grabbing as they go.

Fearless Katie Ormerod ready to seize moment at ‘spectacular’ Beijing course