Curling predictions & free Winter Olympics betting tips

Free curling tips, best bets and analysis for the Winter Olympics men's and women's curling competitions at Beijing 2022.

Where to watch

Live Beijing 2022 coverage on BBC & Eurosport

When to bet

Men's tournament starts 12.05pm Wednesday
Women's tournament starts 1.05am Thursday

Best bet

Sweden to win men's curling gold
1pt 4-1 Betfred, Coral, Ladbrokes

Betting preview

Great Britain's Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds looked thoroughly deflated as they lost the curling mixed doubles bronze-medal match 9-3 to Sweden - a pair they beat in their opening game.

The Scottish curlers missed out on a place in the final in a nail-biting deciding end against Norway, but they will have to put those disappointments behind them and focus on the men's and women's team competitions, which start on Wednesday.

The men's event gets going just after midday UK & Ireland time and favourites Great Britain are fielding the same four curlers who finished as runners-up representing Scotland in the World Championship last April.

Mouat is the quartet's skip, and if he can get his head back in the game then his experience of the ice sheet over the last week should come in handy. Mouat and Dodds won six of their nine round-robin games to finish the preliminary round ranked third.

American John Shuster is back to defend the gold his men won in unlikely circumstances four years ago, but they are 20-1 to repeat.

World champions Sweden are probably the value bet. The same four men who are in Beijing ended the World Championship round-robin stage with an 11-2 record (compared to 9-4 for Scotland) and beat the Scottish four twice during the tournament.

Eve Muirhead returns for her fourth Olympics. The 2014 bronze medal-winning skip also made the semi-finals in Pyeongchang four years ago and her team are third favourites behind 2018 gold medalists Sweden and Canada. World champions Switzerland are a 15-2 chance.

There hasn't been an Alpine combined race in the last two World Cup seasons but the most recent winner in the discipline, Alexis Pinturault, is favourite for gold in the early hours of Thursday.

This event sees the competitors tackle a downhill course and then later a slalom test, with the combined times deciding the result.

Frenchman Pinturault claimed silver behind the now-retired Marcel Hirscher at the 2018 Olympics and won two of the three Alpine combined events in the 2019-20 World Cup season.

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