Scotland look set to defend their title at the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship - which is set to start tomorrow in Geneva - but with a different team, as Olympic champion Eve Muirhead partners up with Olympic silver medallist Bobby Lammie.

World Curling Federation (WCF) President Kate Caithness has called Italy's mixed doubles victory at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games a "great advert" for participation to increase in the sport.

Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner won the mixed doubles curling final at Beijing's National Aquatics Centre to earn Italy's first Olympic gold medal in the sport.

Australia have been cleared to continue in the mixed doubles curling event at Beijing 2022 after clearance was granted by the Chinese Public Health System, having earlier begun preparations to return the team home after positive tests.

A group of mixed doubles curling teams are to compete in the opening session of the 2022 Olympic Games here tomorrow at the Ice Cube, marking the start of the sports programme two days before the Opening Ceremony.

French Open organisers have confirmed a mixed doubles competition will be held this year after the event was cut at the 2020 tournament because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Rafaella Miiller and Andre Baran, both beaten in prolonged and dramatic beach tennis doubles finals the previous night, went one better here today to earn mixed doubles gold for Brazil at the Association of National Olympic Committees World Beach Games with a 6-1, 6-1 win over France’s Nicolas Gianotti and Marie Eve Hoarau.

After his defence of the Wimbledon men's singles title had ended in the quarter-finals in 2017, where he was defeated by Sam Querrey of the United States, Andy Murray corrected an American journalist at the post-match press conference.