The gleaming ice! The competition! The … brooms?
Curling, king of winter sports. Don’t miss the 2010 Winter Olympics action.
Remember: Curling takes big stones.
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February 20, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Never understood how curling became an Olympic sport…
February 20, 2010 at 9:31 pm
madsilence wrote: Never understood how curling became an Olympic sport…
Mike Raffone is among the baffled, too. Curling was a demonstration sport at several early winter meets but became an official sport in 1998 at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games in Nagano. The sport drives crowds wild, so the IOC brought in snowboarding and hot-dog skiing to calm things down.