Get up to speed with all the events at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games

The Winter Olympics are coming, but it's fair to say Aussies might not be as familiar with some of the events as those in its Summer counterpart.

Which is a shame, because almost every event at the colder version of the Games is an adrenaline sport.

In fact, you could argue that the Winter Olympics are the Australian wildlife version of multi-sport events. Sure, they all look cool, but given half the chance, they'd kill you in a heartbeat. 

Check out our guide of all the events at the Winter Games so you don't get your mountains mixed up with your moguls in Beijing.

Despite the athletes showing nerves of steel and needing to display extraordinary precision, curling is not the most adrenaline-fuelled sport to take place at the Games.

Australian pair Dean Hewitt and Tahli Gill will be Australia's first Winter Olympic curlers after winning the mixed pairs qualification tournament in The Netherlands.

To stretch the Australian wildlife analogy, curling is the wombat: Well-loved, but unlikely to do too much damage unless you drop one on your foot.

Players use brooms to help adjust the pace and direction of a 19-kilogram granite stone that is aimed at a target around 30 metres away at the other end of the 5-metre-wide rink.

The tactics and precision required are extraordinary, leading to moments of high drama and extraordinary tension.

For the first time, Australia will have curling representation at a Games in the form of Hewitt and Gill.

They'll compete in the mixed pairs competition, which runs from February 2-8. 

There are also men's and women's team events.

This is another sport that is not exactly death-defying in a conventional sense, but when you factor in the distances involved, the freezing conditions and awkward terrain, there