What sport is played on the ice with rocks and brooms? TO the casual observer -- which is just about everybody -- the sport of curling looks like a group of people hurling rocks on ice and then, using very unlikely pieces of sports equipment, brooms, furiously sweeping the ice in the ...
Curling is played between two teams of four using eight granite stones each. The “pitch” is a flat, smooth area of ice measuring 45-46m long and 4.4-5m wide. There is a “house” at each end, a circular target made up of a blue outer circle with a 12ft diameter, a white circle...