Since the sport's official addition in the 1998 Olympics, Canada has dominated the sport with their men's teams winning gold in 2006, 2010, and 2014, and silver in 19. A demonstration tournament was also held during the 1932 Winter Olympic Games between four teams from Canada and four teams from the United States, with Canada winning 12 games to 4. Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outdoors, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France. In February 2002, the International Olympic Committee retroactively decided that the curling competition from the 1924 Winter Olympics (originally called Semaine des Sports d'Hiver, or International Winter Sports Week) would be considered official Olympic events and no longer be considered demonstration events. It currently includes men's, women's, and mixed doubles tournaments (the mixed doubles event was held for the first time in 2018). Ĭurling has been a medal sport in the Winter Olympic Games since the 1998 Winter Olympics. In the 19th century several private railway stations in the United Kingdom were built to serve curlers attending bonspiels, such as those at Aboyne, Carsbreck, and Drummuir. Scotland is home to the international governing body for curling, the World Curling Federation in Perth, which originated as a committee of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, the mother club of curling. Outdoor curling was very popular in Scotland between the 16th and 19th centuries because the climate provided good ice conditions every winter. Central Canadian curlers often used 'irons' rather than stones until the early 1900s Canada is the only country known to have done so, while others experimented with wood or ice-filled tins. In Darvel, East Ayrshire, the weavers relaxed by playing curling matches using the heavy stone weights from the looms' warp beams, fitted with a detachable handle for the purpose. The last official Grand Match was held here in 1979. A great deal of strategy and teamwork go into choosing the ideal path and placement of a stone for each situation, and the skills of the curlers determine the degree to which the stone will achieve the desired result.Ĭurling on Lake of Menteith from 2010.
"Sweeping a rock" decreases the friction, which makes the stone travel a straighter path (with less curl) and a longer distance. The path of the rock may be further influenced by two sweepers with brooms or brushes, who accompany it as it slides down the sheet and sweep the ice in front of the stone. The player can induce a curved path, described as curl, by causing the stone to slowly rotate as it slides. A game usually consists of eight or ten ends. The purpose is to accumulate the highest score for a game points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each end, which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones once. Each team has eight stones, with each player throwing two. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called rocks, across the ice curling sheet toward the house, a circular target marked on the ice. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Wheelchair curling officially added in 2006.Ĭurling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. First event in 1924 (retroactively made official in 2006).
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