How to watch the Winter Olympics in the UK: TV channel, livestream details for Beijing 2022

The Olympics are almost back. Exactly 180 days after the curtain was brought down on the Tokyo Games, the Beijing Winter Olympics will officially be opened on February 4. However, competition begins two days prior, with preliminary matches in curling and ice hockey ahead of the Opening Ceremony.

The full Winter Olympics 2022 schedule runs from February 2 to February 20. There will be events held in 15 disciplines across seven sports over the course of the 16 days of the Winter Olympics, where there will be 109 sets of medals awarded. That is seven more than there was in PyeongChang 2018 and is attributable to the addition of new events in bobsleigh, freestyle skiing, short track, ski jumping, and snowboard.

Ad/> Norway led the Winter Olympics medal table in 2018, and are expected to do so again in Beijing. Team GB are aiming to exceed their joint-record haul — one gold and four bronze — of medals achieved in South Korea. Beijing 2022Beijing 2022 — Can Bankes, Hall and Mouat help Team GB make Winter Olympics history?YESTERDAY AT 14:05 Snowboard cross world champion Charlotte Bankes had been GB's primary source of gold medal-winning optimism but Dave Ryding's stunning World Cup win in the slalom in Kitzbuhel added renewed hope for further British glory.

The 35-year-old became the first Briton to win a race in the Alpine skiing World Cup in late January and propelled himself into the medal conversation ahead of the event at the Xiaohaituo Alpine Skiing Field in Yanqing District on February 16. Elsewhere, Team GB will undoubtedly be targeting success in the curling, with mixed doubles reigning world champions Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodd part of the travelling party. You can keep Every bit of GB news will be available on a