"My children were very excited after watching the curling matches on TV and eager to play. So I took a kettle, a pressure cooker and some brooms, and play the game with my family members on some ice in my village," Han said, adding the children's interest in the sport increased after...
Curling is a winter sport played by two teams or four players on a rectangular sheet ice with large heavy, polished granite stones. The teams take turns sliding the stones down the ice towards the target. Two sweepers with brooms also accompany each stone to help direct them. The aim is t...
Curling is a sport played on ice with two teams pitted up against one another. Each team has four players in the men’s and women’s events, while the mixed doubles competition features two athletes (one man and one woman) per side. Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Watc...
Bemidji sent more athletes to the game than any other town in America, a total of eight, all of them curlers. Curling is a sport in which a 42 pound stone is guided into position on a sheet of ice by players sweeping the way with brooms.ThurowRoger...
Alexander Krushelnytsky, a curler from Russia, failed a preliminary drug test, putting his bronze medal in jeopardy.
But there is something uniquely perilous-seeming about the sport known as skeleton. (Even the name makes it sound ominous. Luge, by comparison, sounds like it could double as a warm tasty beverage.) In a skeleton competition, you hurtle yourself down a track of ice, with all the super ...
Curling Keeps Eye on the Hog Did you know that I was a city champion curler in high school? Then again, did you know that my school’s team was the only one in our city? Even though the sport of curling looks pretty low-tech with its brooms and stones, there is actually a lot of...
Cloze Activity on Jesse Owens Do a fill-in-the-blanks activity on Jesse Owens. Or go to the answers. Invent A New Olympic Sport There are many unusual Olympic sports, like skeleton (running and then sledding), biathlon (skiing plus shooting), and curling (using brooms to propel an objec...
Ice skating is the most beloved of the Winter Games, with all the salchows, axels, sequin disasters and copious tears.The Rinks-Lakewood Iceis a Southland haven for the sport’s best, including Nathan Chen and Adam Rippon, and you can stand, glide and fall on that same ice. “Anyone ...