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The World Championships is a qualifying event for next year's Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina.

The capital, Beijing, which hosted last year’s Winter Olympic Games, has seen temperatures around freezing.

The changes included renaming California's "Squaw Valley," the site of the 1960 Winter Olympic Games, "Olympic Valley."

The five members of the women's curling squad that won Team GB its only gold of the Winter Olympic Games in February all receive honours.

He and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had met face-to-face in Beijing, culminating in a joint document - and then they went off to see the opening of the Winter Olympic Games.