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Curling officials and athletes are hoping the mixed doubles competition can be expanded at future Olympic Winter Games after the it's debut at the PyeongChang 2018 Games. Eight teams competed in the inaugural competition but the World Curling Federation has already proposed a bigger team event for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

Great Britain - bronze medallists from the 2014 Sochi Games - opened their Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 competition with a 10-3 win in seven ends over the Olympic Athlete from Russia (OAR) team. Other winners were Japan, with a 10-5 victory over United States; Sweden (the silver medal nation from Sochi), who beat Denmark by 9-3; and China, who had a 7-2 win over Switzerland.

Eating dinner next to iconic Olympians never gets old. That's probably the biggest shock for the three 2012 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) athletes competing at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, in the Republic of Korea. Don't mind the village, the media, the fans - they're already used to that.

It took all the way to the last stone, but Canada opened their country's defence of the men's Olympic title with a 5-3 win over Italy in Wednesday morning's men's first round-robin session of the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. Great Britain's opening win was even tighter, as they were taken to an extra end before defeating Switzerland by 6-5.

Flash quotes from the opening day of the Olympic Winter Games 2018 team competitions.