Korea, the defending junior men's champions, opened the defence of their crown with a 10-4 win over Germany in Saturday afternoon's opening men's round-robin session of the World Junior Curling Championships 2018, in Curl Aberdeen, Scotland.

Sweden's women opened their world junior championship title defence with a 7-4 win over Korea as the World Junior Curling Championships 2018 got underway at Curl Aberdeen, Scotland on Saturday (3 March) morning. The Swedes took a 3-2 lead into the fifth-end break, and a score of three points in the sixth end, for a 6-2 lead, proved decisive for them.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that all sporting action from the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games held 9-18 March will be streamed live on www.Paralympic.org using an Olympic Channel player. More than 300 hours of coverage will be available over the six Paralympic sports, including individual matches from Para ice hockey and wheelchair curling.

Throughout the journey to the Olympic Winter Games 2018 in PyeongChang, Republic of Korea, the Olympic Celebration Tour (OCT) has been running in full force across the world. The OCT is a series of instructional, interactive curling tours with the goal in mind to generate interest and create awareness of curling leading up to, and during, the Games.