Curling: Youth Olympic Games athlete quota increased, and event programme changes announced
02/26/21
The International Olympic Committee have announced a change to curling competitions in the Youth Olympic Games Gangwon 2024 event programme while also increasing the athlete quota for the Games.
The Mixed National Olympic Committee (NOC) Mixed Doubles competition where athletes from different NOC's formed mixed doubles pairs has been replaced with a traditional Mixed Doubles competition.
With these changes, curling will move to a two-wave approach for the athletes. The two-wave system allows the athletes from the Mixed Team event to return home at the conclusion of the competition. Then, prior to the beginning of the Mixed Doubles competition, athletes competing in that event will begin arriving at the Games.