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Mixed doubles is a variation of traditional curling in which there are only two players per team—one female and one male. Mixed doubles was introduced as a World Championship event in 2008 in an attempt to convince the IOC to add an additional curling discipline to the Winter Olympics. (This was eventually successful in 2018.) I am painfully aware of this date as my wife and I lost the right to represent the United States on the last stone of the first U.S. Mixed Doubles Nati

With Olympic curling just around the corner, I thought I’d provide an introduction to the basics of the traditional four-person game for those who may come across it on TV but are not familiar with the sport. This is the standard format that has been a medal event since 1998*. The mixed-doubles format was added in 2018 and will be the subject of my next post. Four-Person Curling Curling is played on a sheet of ice by two teams of four players each. The objective is to score t