If no team scores in an end ... The sweepers on a curling team have the task of sweeping the ice in front of the moving stone with brooms. This action melts the pebbled ice and creates a slippery ...

It's known as a low-fi sport: rocks sliding down the ice, brooms sweeping in front of them to alter their speed and direction. But curling was given a high-tech upgrade over the last dozen years ...

no sweeping the opposition's stone behind the tee-line and new markings on ice for non-throwing team members to be stationed. "Curling will look a bit different this upcoming season, but we're ...

For the most puzzling sport at the Winter Olympics, no stone ... a normal curling broom with all manner of wires attached to it to measure movements of the sweeping strokes on the ice, Bradley ...

The game earned the moniker, The Roarin’ Game, from the roar sound which comes from the granite stone as it travels over the ice ... to the World Curling Federation, good sweeping can allow ...

Watching from afar, curling looks ... explained that the No. 1 physical trait needed to be a good curler is flexibility, and then proceeded to glide down the ice and shoot the rock with his ...

The special granite also absorbs almost no water. This prevents the stone from changing mass or eroding due to freezing and thawing inside the stone. Here is a surprise — curling ice is not smooth!

Hard-core U.S. sports buffs might scoff at the game of curling ... on ice, with brooms and a big rock. One man slides the rock down the ice and his teammates charge ahead of it, sweeping ...

They love the hockey, the figure skating, and another odd-looking sport played on ice. It is curling. "As easy as it ... are a bit different. There are no brooms like the Olympians use to sweep ...

This problem is particularly relevant to curling, because no two ice sheets are ever the same ... Curly isn’t designed for sweeping, West notes. To make sure it was a fair competition, the ...

Olympic curling has taken to ... is not always a good thing, but sweeping helps combat the problem. The sweeping motion raises the temperature of the ice by a degree or two, which diminishes ...