Curling
Similar to shuffleboard, curling is an indoor sport in which two four-person teams slide handle-topped stones toward the center of a circle at either end of an ice rink. One end is completed after 16 stones have been delivered and the team with the most stones nearest the target after eight or ten ends wins. Curling originated in Scotland and the Netherlands in the 1500s. Although it is the most popular in Canada, curling is also played in the U.S. and northern and central European countries and became part of the Winter Olympics in 1998. This section focuses on curling.
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Curling Teams Make Winning Starts Winter Olympics: Great Britain's men's and women's teams get off to victorious starts in Pinerolo. |
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BBC Arrange Curling Play-off November 30: When the British curling team won gold they had no idea of the buzz they had caused, but it was a different... |
| When Curling Became a National Obsession February 24: For centuries the British have been giving their staff gyp, yelling at the poor cleaner; on Thursday night,... |
A Life Less Ordinary Waits for Curling Heroes February 23: Britain's newest sporting heroine will return from triumph in Utah next week to join the school run in the... |