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Norway competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, from 7 to 23 February 2014.
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The Star Sailors League (SSL) is the global inshore sailing circuit launched by Olympic athletes in 2012. Supported by the sailing stars like Loïck Peyron and Dennis Conner, the SSL is recognized as "special event" by World Sailing since 2017. Its main philosophy considers the athletes as the "Stars". Its goals are:
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This article contains lists of achievements in major senior-level international curling and wheelchair curling tournaments according to first-place, second-place and third-place results obtained by teams representing different nations. The objective is not to create combined medal tables; the focus is on listing the best positions achieved by teams in major international tournaments, ranking the nations according to the most number of podiums accomplished by teams of these nations.
Curling at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics took place at the Palladium de Champéry in Champéry, Switzerland from 10 to 22 January 2020.
The 2021 World Women's Curling Championship was held 30 April to 9 May at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta.
The 2022 World Men's Curling Championship was held from April 2 to April 10 at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, United States. Team Sweden, skipped by Niklas Edin, was the defending championship team. The 2022 WMCC trialed the no-tick rule for the first time at a men's tournament at this level.
Switzerland 
Sweden 
Canada 
1
Japan 
South Korea 
2
United States 
Scotland / 
Great Britain 
Norway 
Denmark 
Italy 
Russia 
China 
Latvia 
Slovakia 
Australia 
Czech Republic 
Germany 
Spain 
Hungary