The Russian Curling Federation has been banned from competing for the
remainder of the 2021-2022 international season by the sport's
governing body, the World Curling Federation.
The Swiss city Geneva has been named the host of the World Mixed
Doubles Curling Championship, as well as the World Senior Curling
Championships, due to take place in April 2022.
The World Mixed Doubles Qualification Event 2022 scheduled for early
January in Scotland has been cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions,
it has been announced.
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Scotland clinches world mixed doubles curling title
Xinhua
24 May 2021, 11:18 GMT+10
LONDON, May 23 (Xinhua) Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat from Scotland defeated Norwegian pair Kristin Skaslien and Magnus Nedregotten 9-7 to win the gold at the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Aberdeen, Britain on Sunday. Skaslien and Nedregotten, who won the bronze medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games in 2018, took a 5-3 lead at the halfway break. Dodds and Mouat managed to tie the game at 5-5 after collecting two points from the fifth end, but the Norwegians used their power-play in the sixth end to put them ahead again at 7-5.