Curling

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Jennifer Jones

Curling is a very popular sport in Canada.

It is also played in the across the USA in "Curling CLubs"

An Olympic curling game is separated into 10 rounds called "ends." An end is complete when all 16 stones (8 for each team) have come to rest. The score for that end is then taken. Whichever team is closest to the center of the house (the scoring area that looks like a target) scores. The amount of points they get is equal to the number of stones they have that are closer to the center than the opponent's closest. A couple of examples: if red has 3 stones in the house and yellow has none, then red scores 3. If red has 5 stones in the house--one of them being the closest--but yellow has a stone that is closer than 4 of the red stones, then red only scores 1.

The conventional wisdom is that the Scots developed curling, but there is a strong case for Holland as well. There are Dutch paintings of either curling or eisscheissen which predate the development of curling by the Scots.

Curling is played to some extent in at least 50 countries; there are currently 50 countries belonging to the World Curling Federation (the international governing body for curling). Besides the U.S. and Canada, most of the WCF member countries are European. A few exceptions are China, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Curling_Federation

Curling stones are made of a very specific type of granite mined from one of two quarries in the United Kingdom: Ailsa Craig, a small island off the coast of Scotland, and Trefor Quarry in Wales.

It takes 13 amps

Varies - but around 10 is a good average.

"Shot rock" is the term for the rock that is currently the closest to the center (the "pin") of the scoring area (the "house").

The captain of a curling team is known as the "skip."

All members of the curling team throw stones. Every end, they take turns throwing 2 stones each in the order of: Lead, Second, Third/Vice/Mate, Skip.

The person who is currently delivering their stone could be called the thrower.

Loose but warm clothing. Stretchy black pants with a warm but not too big sort of lose fitting sweater. If you want to look a little bit more like the pro's, a tight long sleve or t-shirt works but it's cooler.

1) Women's two bobsleigh

2) Men's curling

3) Mixed ice dancing

4) Women's ski cross

5) Men's moguls

6) Women's ice hockey

7) Men's ice hockey

8) Men's 5000 meter relay short track speed skating

9) Men's 500 meter short track speed skating

10) Men's skeleton

11) Women's boardercross

12) Men's parallel giant slalom (snowboarding)

13) Women's 1000 meter speed skating

14) Men's team pursuit speed skating

A curling rink (usually called a sheet) is about 150 feet long and about 15 feet wide. The area of ice that is "in play" is 126 feet long, while the distance from hack to hack (the hack is where you push off from) is 138 feet.

World Curling Federation rules require a weight of 38 to 44 pounds, or 17 to 20 kg.

She's 30.

The friction from sweeping heats the ice slightly and reduces the friction between the rock and the ice. This does two things; it makes the rock travel farther, and it also makes the rock travel straighter. When a rock is released, depending on the type of shot being thrown, the players will judge whether sweeping will help or hurt the trajectory of the rock, and decide whether the rock should be swept or not. Usually, the sweepers will pay attention to whether the rock might need sweeping to travel farther, while the skip pays attention to whether the rock might need sweeping to travel straighter, and they communicate this with each other while the rock travels down the ice.

Although the curlers make it look effortless, the curling stones must weigh between 38 to 44 pounds.

Canada, by far. There are somewhere around 200,000 regular curlers in Canada. The U.S. is a distant second, at around 18,000 curlers, though popularity is growing rapidly in the U.S. (it's doubled in 20 years).

A curling team is properly called a "rink," although the word "team" is used more often in everyday speech. On a related note, the ice surface that curling is played on is called a "sheet," not a rink.

they went from rocks to metal

The pants are made by a company called Loudmouth Golf based out of Britain.

Here's a link to the red/blue/white pants:

http://prostores1.visioncourse.com/servlet/loudmouthgolf_uk/Detail?no=14

Here's the more subdued red/white/grey pants they've worn in other games:

http://prostores1.visioncourse.com/servlet/loudmouthgolf_uk/Detail?no=10

Both of those sites are for shipping to Europe, but you can go back to the main Loudmouth site for shipping to North America.

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