Sports Sunday – Curling

Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called “rocks”, across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a circular target marked on the ice. Each team has eight stones. The purpose is to accumulate the highest score for a game, points being 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. A game may consist of ten or eight ends.

Sports mural (StreetView)
Sports mural

Kays of Scotland Company, the Curling stone factory (StreetView)
Kays of Scotland Company, the Curling stone factory
Ogden Ice Sheet (Google Maps)
Ogden Ice Sheet

Kazakoshi Park Arena (Google Maps)
Kazakoshi Park Arena

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