Beijing 2022 Media Announcements

19 February 2022 – Australian Olympic Committee Releases: Geoff Lipshut Salutes Australian Team at Beijing 2022 After Record Result

Australia’s Chef de Mission Geoff Lipshut has described the Australian Team competing at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games as the best he’s been associated with, following a record medal haul and numerous results just off the podium. Mr Lipshut says the Team formed a hugely close bond at the Beijing Games and represented their country with distinction. Read more here. Photo © AOC/Getty Images

7 February 2022 – International Olympic Committee Releases: Australia produce major curling upset beating Canada in day of drama

Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt finally found their breakthrough in Australia’s Olympic curling debut beating Switzerland 9-6 and Canada 10-8 at the Beijing 2022 mixed doubles tournament. Olympic curling debutants Australia had a day of breakthroughs and plot twists, winning their last two matches of the mixed doubles competition at the National Aquatics Centre on Sunday (6 February). Read more here. Photo © IOC/Getty Images

7 February 2022 – Australian Olympic Committee Releases: Curlers claim hard-earned historic victory

Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt have finished a whirlwind final day in Beijing by knocking off Canada 10-8 in the mixed doubles curling. Read more here. Photo © AOC/Getty Images

6 February 2022 – Australian Olympic Committee Releases: Australian curling pair’s campaign ends early

Australia’s curling team in the mixed doubles has been given a late reprieve and will compete this afternoon following an urgent meeting of the Medical Expert Panel (MEP) in Beijing. Read more here. Photo © AOC/Getty Images

6 February 2022 – Australian Olympic Committee Releases: Australian curling pair’s campaign ends early

The Australian Olympic Committee is making arrangements for Australia’s first curling Olympians Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt to return to Australia, after Tahli returned a series of positive COVID tests late yesterday. Read more here. Photo © AOC/Getty Images

5 February 2022 – Australian Olympic Committee Releases: Courageous curlers keep trying for victory amid loss to Italy

Dean Hewitt and Tahli Gill will have to wait at least another day to record their first win at the Olympics, as the unbeaten Italian pair put Australia away 3-7 at The Ice Cube. Read more here. Photo © AOC/Getty Images

4 February 2022 – Australian Olympic Committee Releases: Curlers force world champs to tiebreaker in loss

Underdogs Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt have given Great Britain’s world champion curlers all they could handle in an epic comeback, but weren’t able to pull away for victory. It was a tremendous performance fuelled by strong Aussie spirit, which they can be very proud of despite the final result. Read more here Photo © AOC/Getty Images

4 February 2022 – Australian Olympic Committee Releases: Hewitt and Gill push Sweden in tight contest

It was another agonisingly close finish for Australia as they went down 6-7 to Sweden at The Ice Cube in their fourth round robin match. Read more here. Photo © AOC/Getty Images

4 February 2022 – Australian Olympic Committee Releases: Australia still searching for first Curling win after tough loss

It was a tough night on the ice for Australia’s Dean Hewitt and Tahli Gill, who fought hard but came up short against a ferocious Czech Republic side in their third game of the round robin series. Read more here. Photo © AOC/Getty Images

3 February 2022 – Australian Olympic Committee Releases: Curlers show nerves of steel despite coming up short against China

Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt have fallen short of Australia’s first Curling victory at the Olympics by the narrowest of margins, going down to China’s SuYuan Fan and Ling Zhi 5-6 in Match 2 of the round robin competition. Read more here. Photo © AOC/Getty Images

3 February 2022 – Australian Olympic Committee Releases: Curlers kick-start Australia’s Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics campaign

Australia’s Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt have made history, becoming the first Aussie representatives in Curling at the Winter Olympics in a valiant performance while narrowly going down 5-6 to Team USA. Read more here. Photo © AOC/Getty Images

2 February 2022 – Australian Olympic Committee Releases Curling Preview: AUS v USA

Two days before the Opening Ceremony, Australian fans will get their first glimpse of our Winter Olympic athletes in action when the Curling gets underway on Wednesday 2 February. Dubbed ‘Australia’s answer to Cool Runnings,’ curlers Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt will have the eyes of the world on them as they are the first Aussies to ever qualify for an Olympic Games in their sport. Read more here. Photo © AOC/Getty Images

31 January 2022 – Australian Olympic Committee Confirms Curler Tahli Gill Returns Second Negative Test

The AOC has confirmed that the arriving Australian athlete who tested positive on the weekend has now twice tested negative and will resume normal Games preparation. Read more here. Photo © AOC/Getty Images

25 January 2022 – Australian Olympic Committee Beijing 2022 Preview: Curling

Curling preview - Beijing 2022

Curling will be the first sport played at Beijing 2022, beginning two days before the Opening Ceremony, and for the first time in Olympic history Australia will be in the competition. Read more here. Photo © Steve Seixeiro

16 January 2022 – Australian Olympic Committee Names Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt to the Australian Olympic Team

From Australian Olympic Committee News: Curlers Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt have been announced as the first Australians selected to the Australian Winter Olympic Team for Beijing, with the pair also set to make history as Australia’s first Olympic curlers. After securing their mixed doubles quota in a nailbiting, undefeated run in the final Olympic Qualification Tournament in the Netherlands in December, the pair was nominated by Australian Curling Federation and officially selected by the Australian Olympic Committee. While Australia competed when Curling was a demonstration sport at Albertville 1992, today’s selection means 22-year-old Gill, who grew up in Brisbane and 27-year-old Victorian Hewitt will become Australia’s first Olympians in the sport. Read more here. Photo © AOC