New events at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

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Women’s monobob

The individual version of the traditional team bobsleigh event. Where in the team format, the roles of pushing, driving and breaking their vehicle are divided, the athlete will be required complete all three tasks while travelling at frighteningly high speeds.

Victorian Bree Walker is currently ranked fifth in the world and shapes as our best hope for a medal, coming off an excellent 2021/22 season.

Heats begin Saturday 12 February.

Short track speed skating mixed relay

No one who witnessed it will forget the sheer bedlam as Steven Bradbury crossed the finish line in first place back in 2002 at Salt Lake City in the individual 1000-metre short-track speed skating final.

In Beijing, the chaos will intensify as four skaters cover 18 laps of a 111.12 metres long track for the 2000-metre mixed relay.

Each athlete will race twice in the following order: woman-woman-man-man-woman-woman-man-man.

The Short track speed skating mixed relay will be held in the early hours of Sunday morning, 6 February.

Mixed team freestyle skiing aerials

Another of the four new mixed events to be held in Beijing, along with the relay.

Don’t try this one at home!

The halfpipe, slopestyle and moguls are all judged events, where competitors receive a score from a group of judges based on their tricks and skiing form.

Each team will have three competitors with at least one from each gender, as decided by the team.

The final wills will be held on Thursday 10 February.