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- To play Curling you must and should have special equipment likeA special broomGloves with a grippy surfaceA Curling Stone
- The rules of curling are:To score, each team needs tothrow the heavy stoneand it needs to be closerto the circle
- The first curling matchstarted in 1500 being played in Scotland and Netherlands
- And, in 1838 the first rules of Curling were drawn up
- Curling was played at the first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix, France in 1924
- First World Ladies’ Curling Championship (Perth, Scotland) in 1979
- The question is, why do we call it Curling?
- Well, we call it Curling because it is a winter sport played on ice. The name Curling refers to the rotational spin of the Curling stone, which causes it to take a curved path
- How heavy is the Curling stone?
- The Curling stone, or rock, is made of dense polished granite from Ailsa Craig, Scotland, and in the Olimpics, each rock weighs 19.1 kg (44lbs)
- Why do we need to brush in Curling?
- The heat produced by the friction generated by sweeping mels the ice and produces a thin layer of water over which the heavy granite stone slides more easily since the friction between the stone and water is less than that between the stone and ice
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