Find out how Nigeria women's curling skipper Linda Chiamaka Nwagbo and her team are practising for the Beijing 2022 qualifiers despite having no access to ice.
The ‘Broomzillas’ became the first curlers from the African continent to compete in the sport at a Winter Olympic event. Despite not being able train on ice in Nigeria yet, the team members are optimistic about the future.
Some fans play curling on their own floor at home, using a cube of ice with a cucumber in the middle as the handle. The homemade "curling stones" works well on the floor tiles. In the curling game, the brush is ...
In a skeleton competition, you hurtle yourself down a track of ice, with all the super awesome physics at work that you see in bobsledding, only instead of being seated comfortably in an upright and secure position, you shoot down this chilly vortex of fear face-first. Face-first. So anyt...
In curling, a broom is part of each player’s equipment. A good curler must know how much force to use. The player must know the exact conditions of the ice on the court. ___30___That may explain why the international Olympic Committee decided to make curling an Olympic sport in 1998...