Winter Olympics 2022 LIVE: Opening ceremony going down in Beijing as curling continues

The 2022 Winter Olympics will formally get underway with the opening ceremony going down on Friday in Beijing.

The ceremony is going down on the Chicken’s Nest stadium, constructed and used for the 2008 summer season Olympic video games, as Beijing turns into the primary metropolis to host each editions of the video games.

The stadium additionally served because the venue for Observe and Subject as properly the boys’s 2008 gold medal soccer recreation, however won’t host any sporting occasions in 2022.

The opening ceremony will probably be directed by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Zhang Yimou, who directed the opening and shutting ceremonies in 2008.

Chinese language state tv says that Zhang will use expertise to create an “ethereal and romantic” occasion.

The parade of countries is predicted to comply with the identical order as at Beijing 2008, with international locations coming into the stadium in accordance the strokes used within the Chinese language-language characters of their names.

Greece, as custom dictates, will enter first as the primary ever host of the Olympics, and China because the host nation will enter final.

Away from the ceremony, British curlers Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat will tackle Australia within the combined doubles occasion.

Determine Skating additionally begins on Friday with the Group Occasion, together with the boys’s quick program , the place American star Nathan Chen, 22, might win the US its first gold medal in males’s skating in additional than a decade.