Curling at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Statistics Curling at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Statistics This is a statistical synopsis of the curling tournaments at the 2014 Winter Olympics. A total of thirty-three curlers are Olympic veterans. Two female curlers from the inaugural Olympic curling event in Nagano in 1998 returned to the Olympics. Seven female curlers and one male curler who competed in Salt Lake City in 2002 have qualified again. Ten curlers from the Torino Olympics in 2006 are competing at these Olympics, and fifteen women and eighteen men who participated in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics have returned. In curling, each player is graded on
Munich bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics Munich bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics Munich 2018 was an unsuccessful bid by Munich, Germany for the 2018 edition of the Winter Olympic Games. Munich hosted the 1972 Summer Olympics, and if selected would have been the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Games, but that honor went to Beijing four years later. Berlin and Hamburg were considering a summer games bid for 2024 or 2028, but the German Olympic Committee put priority on the Munich bid. After Salzburg's failure to capture the 2014 bid, Germany felt it has a better chance and would have preferred