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Curling Research Paper

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Curling is a sport that is more interesting when you learn more about it. Curling can be fun but yo have to train mentaly and phyiscaly. There are many ways you can train for curling. The goal of curling is to get your stone in the middle of the target or that home to score the most points. The dimensons of the ice are 16 feet and 5 inches wide, and 150 long. The dimensions of target 12 feet, 8 feet, and 4 feet. When you play curling there are two teams, each team has four players. Both teams take turns slidding polished granite stones on the ice, trying to get them to the middle of the target. If one of your stones is in or touching the target or house you score a point. The score is calculated in 10 ends whic are pretty much 10 innings. The winner is decided at the end of the innings. The winner is the oone who has the most points at the end of …show more content…

Curling was passed through a few countries before it got to the United States. Curling is a sport that came a long way. Curling started when farmers slid channel stones across ice. When farmers started curling they slid stones on frozen marshes. Curling was started in Scotland. Scotland immagrants brought curling to the United States. Curling was added to the olympics in 1924. When the olympics were in Chamonix, France. The country that holds the most gold medals is Switerland. Have you ever wondered what kind of equipment they use in curling? Curling use a lot different equipment in the competitions. I am going to tell you about a few different types of equipment that are used in curling. Some equipment that is used in curling are shoes with traction, brooms, stabilizers, delivery stick, and granite stones. The equipment have been advanced in differetn ways like the stones are granite and the shoes have more traction. When curling was invented they did not use stabilizers. Stabilizer were added for safety too. The shoes have soft insoles so you can grip the ice

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