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Ice Hockey and Curling (Winter Olympic Sports) by Robin Johnson, 2009-08 A Basic Guide to Curling (U.S. Olympic Sports Series) by Cathy Breitenbucher, 1999-12-01 Olympic Curling Trials: Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, 2005 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials Dene curler to compete for men's Olympic team. (Sports: Edmonton).(Ken Tralnberg to compete for Canada in 2002 Winter Olympics)(Brief Article): An article from: Wind Speaker by Paul Barnsley, 2002-02-01 Curling (The Story of Canadians in the Olympic Winter Games) by Blaine Wiseman, 2009-09 Sandra Schmirler: An entry from Gale's <i>Notable Sports Figures</i> by Julia Bauder, 2004 Curling: The History, The Players, The Game by Warren Hansen, 2000-09-02 Giving wheelchair curling a second chance.(U.S. Paralympics Forum)(Interview): An article from: Palaestra by Charlie Huebner, Beth Bourgeois, et all 2009-03-22 Major curling for 'Peg; MTS Centre likely home for new pre-Olympic qualifying event in 2009.(Sports): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press by Gale Reference Team, 2007-10-18

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61. Rutgers, Olympic Style - The Daily Targum - Opinions
    Even curling, the most serene and boring of olympic sports, mesmerizes us more through novelty and the potential for media circus than for athleticism.  
    http://www.dailytargum.com/news/2002/02/21/Opinions/Rutgers.Olympic.Style-188406
    
    Extractions: Scandal has unfortunately overshadowed the positive aspects of nationalism and athleticism in the 2002 Winter Games. Starting with the early '90s hoopla over bribes taken by Olympic committee judges to give Salt Lake City the 2002 Olympics, to fears about the "Mormonization" of the games, to the accusations against speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno for throwing a trial race so an American teammate could make the team, to the thigh-slicing tackle that brought him down to silver, scandal has been the true draw of the games. Figure skating has proven once again to be part technical skill, part artistry and part total farce. Not since Tonya and Nancy has the world been so inflamed by the seedy side of axels and lutzes. The decision by the International Olympic Committee to award two gold medals to original medal winners, Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze and to the winners in public opinion, Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier (after a French judge admitted to being leaned on to favor the Russians in exchange for a vote for the French in ice dancing) has convinced many that figure skating cannot be an Olympic sport because it so hard to measure, and thus subject to corruption.

62. Olympic Gambling Sites
    of the following 2002 olympic Hockey Gold Medal Silver or meters Women s curling Betting on the olympic games is fun sports Gambling  
    http://www.gamblingsmart.com/olympic_gambling_1.php

63. Volante Online
    And curling is the only olympic sport that can handle the muscular manliness of a 46year-old, balding, nearsighted, Norwegian accountants.  
    http://www.volanteonline.com/news/2002/02/27/Sports/Curling.More.Than.Just.Ice.A
    
    Extractions: document.write(currentissuedayname + ', ' + currentissuemonthname + ' ' + currentissueday + ', ' + currentissueyear); Login Register Message Boards Classifieds ... Sports By Jennifer Nauman Published: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 Ihave decided to become Croatian. Canadian-Croatian. Not because I admire the rich cultural heritage and traditions of these two peoples, but because I want to be in the Olympics really bad. Yeah, I'm sick of columns about the Olympics, too, but this column is about CURLING. And I consider myself an authority on curling because as far as I know, I'm the only American to have ever curled, or at least admit to it. So my Croatian-Canadian viewpoint on curling is obliviously the best EVER. When I was 7, my figure skating coach decided we needed to learn to curl, mostly because she desperately wanted to be Canadian and probably thought it would look good on a citizenship application. (I could tell she was a Canadian wannabe because she wore a lot of pastel-striped sweaters and was very polite.) So we first graders worked our hardest to become Canadian, even politely pretending to get excited about sweeping ice in front of a huge, sliding rock as we tried not to fall on our very cold asses — at least until we revolted eight months later by pulling all of the bristles out the brooms.

64. Lycos 50 -- Winter Olympic Preview
    Here were the top 10 mostsearched sports of the Winter Olympics last week 1) Snowboarding 2) curling 3) Ice hockey 4) Skiing 5) Figure skating 6) Skeleton 7  
    http://50.lycos.com/020802.asp

65. INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
    olympic sports Choose a sport.  
    http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/disciplines_uk.asp?DiscCode=CU

66. USATODAY.com - Phelps Takes USATODAY.com's Weekly Olympic Sports Honor
    For winning six times in six races in a shortcourse World Cup meet in Australia, Michael Phelps is this week's USATODAY.com U.S. olympic Athlete of the Week. Other notable performances included  
    http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2003-12-02-aow-phelps_x.htm
    
    Extractions: Click Here Cars Jobs Tickets Travel ... Weather Olympic sports Olympics home Olympics briefs Winter sports Future Games ... Olympic Glory International sports Index British review Asian review Tools Game matchups Sheridan's odds Live odds Sagarin ratings Indexes Scores Columnist index Sports briefs TV listings ... Sports index Posted 12/2/2003 12:03 PM RELATED ITEMS U.S. Olympic Athlete of the Week June 1: Maurice Greene (track and field) May 25: Katie Hoff (swimming) May 18: Fred Rodriguez (cycling) May 11: Sheila Taormina (triathlon) Past winners and nominees About the award USATODAY.com will select each U.S. Olympic Athlete of the Week based on competition in international events that are part of the Olympic Games. Today's Top Sports Stories Tampa fends off Calgary, wins first Stanley Cup Bush selected by Padres with top pick in baseball draft Lakers-Pistons ratings send mixed signals Steelers sign Maddox to contract extension ... What's this?

67. TSN.ca - Curling - Canada's Sports Leader
    More sports.  
    http://www.tsn.ca/curling/
    
    Extractions: window.name="main"; var szone="curling"; // var for zone var smode=""; // var for subsect stats etc var sloc="hub"; var sadpg="curling"; // var for zone var sarena="sports"; var sMAXPOP="1"; HOME Curling SPORTS CURLING Schedule/Results Your Call Curling on TSN ... Curling Links NHL NHL Home Playoffs Scores Standings Sched./Results Players Statistics Injuries Transactions TradeCentre Your Call NHL on TSN TSN UHC Pool Pool Manager NBA NBA Home Playoffs Scores Standings Sched./Results Players Statistics Injuries Transactions Your Call NBA on TSN MLB Home Scores Standings Sched./Results Players Statistics Injuries Transactions Your Call MLB on TSN CFL CFL Home Scores Standings Sched./Results Statistics Transactions Your Call CFL on TSN NFL Home Playoffs Scores Standings Sched./Results Players Statistics Injuries Transactions Your Call NFL on TSN Golf Home Players Your Call Golf on TSN Tennis Home Your Call Tennis on TSN Auto Racing Home Formula One Nascar Champ Car IRL Your Call Racing On TSN Soccer Home Canada Euro 2004 FIFA Rankings Your Call Soccer on TSN More Hockey Cdn. Hockey

68. CNNSI.com - Olympic Sports - Test - Friday August 25, 2000 04:01 AM
    WINTER OLYMPICS. sports Illustrated and CNN have combined to  
    http://www.cnnsi.com/olympics/features/2000/almanac/
    
    Extractions: SUMMER OLYMPICS -SI Almanac main page -History of locations and dates ALLTIME MEDAL WINNERS -Nations -Individuals: overall -Individuals: gold SUMMER GAMES: ATLANTA 1996 -Archery: individual -Archery: team -Badminton -Baseball -Basketball -Beach Volleyball -Boxing -Canoe/Kayak -Cycling -Diving -Equestrian -Fencing -Field Hockey -Gymnastics -Judo -Modern Pentathlon -Mountain Biking -Rowing -Shooting -Soccer -Softball -Swimming -Synchronized Swimming -Table Tennis -Team Handball -Tennis -Volleyball -Water Polo -Weightlifting -Wresting: freestyle -Wrestling: Greco-Roman -Yachting ALLTIME GAMES CHAMPIONS -Basketball -Boxing -Diving -Gymnastics: men -Gymnastics: women -Soccer -Swimming: men -Swimming: women WINTER OLYMPICS -SI Almanac main page -History of locations and dates ALLTIME MEDAL WINNERS -Nations -Individuals: overall -Individuals: gold WINTER GAMES: NAGANO 1998 -Alping Skiing -Biathlon -Bobsled -Curling -Figure Skating -Freestyle Skiing -Ice Hockey -Luge -Nordic Skiing -Snowboarding -Speedskating ALLTIME GAMES CHAMPIONS -Alpine Skiing -Biathlon: men -Biathlon: women -Bobsled -Curling -Figure Skating -Freestyle Skiing -Ice Hockey: men -Ice Hockey: women -Luge: men -Luge: women -Nordic Skiing: men -Nordic Skiing: women

69. THE OLYMPIC SPORT OF CURLING
    THE olympic SPORT OF curling. Submitted by Lisa Schoeneberg. curling history dates back to the 16th century, when Scottish farmers  
    http://www.goodcurling.net/Media/Press Kit/olympic_sport_of_curling.htm
    
    Extractions: THE OLYMPIC SPORT OF CURLING Submitted by Lisa Schoeneberg Curling history dates back to the 16th century, when Scottish farmers passed time during long, gray winters by sliding large granite stones, retrieved from nearby channels at low tide, across frozen lochs. Curling appeared as a demonstration sport in four Olympic Winter Games: 1924 in Chamonix, France, Lake Placid in 1932, 1988 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and 1992 in Albertville, France. Curling made its Olympic medal debut at the 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan. The Game is played between two four-member teams who use stones with different colored handles. Each game consists of ten ends, which are similar to innings in baseball. During an end, each team member alternates throwing stones toward a circular target area, called the house, the center of which is approximately 93 feet away. Only one team scores points per end. The team with their stones closest to the center of the target area, called the button, gets one point for each stone between the button and the opposing teams nearest stone. After each end is completed, play is switched to the house at the other end of the sheet. The Free Guard Zone is the space between the hogline and the tee line, excluding the house (see diagram, next page). No stone lying in this zone may be removed from play by the opposition until the first 4 stones in any end have come to rest. Any opponents stone(s) removed from the Free Guard Zone prior to the first 4 stones being played, the opposing team will place their stone back in it’s original position and play continues.

70. LookSmart - Directory - Olympic Curling
    Includes news, schedules, and complete results. Borders curling Forum Message forum based in Scotland invites one and all to discuss the olympic sport.  
    http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317902/us575637/us70116/us575773/us58

71. 1800-Olympics.com -- Winter Olympics: Curling
    curling Association The New Zealand curling Association (NZCA) is the National Governing Body for the olympic sport of curling New Zealand s coolest game.  
    http://www.travelnotes.org/1800/Olympics/Curling.htm

72. BBC SPORT | Winter Olympics 2002 | Front Page
    GB turns attention to Turin British sports chiefs begin preparation for the next Winter Olympics just 24 Britain s curlers Rhona Martin s curling team thrill  
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/default.stm

73. BBC SPORT | Winter Olympics 2002 | Curling
    curling set to break boundaries Great Britain s olympic gold will only help the development of the sport, particularly if the interest stretches south of the  
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/curling/default.stm

74. What Is Curling?
    curling became an olympic Sport in 1998 when it was a medal sport for the first time at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan.  
    http://mnmn.essortment.com/whatiscurling_repl.htm
    
    Extractions: What is curling? What is curling? It is often compared to lawn bowling on ice. The unique feature of the game is the use of brooms to sweep the ice. Like its landlocked cousin, golf, the origins of the sport of curling are murky with both the countries of Holland and Scotland claiming birthrights. Scotland stakes its creationist laurels on the oldest known curling stone with the date 1511 inscribed on its surface. The best evidence trotted out by the Dutch, who popularized ice skating and would seem to have an historical pedigree when it came to games played on the ice, is a painting from the mid-16th century by the Flemish painter Pieter Breughel. The canvas depicts a spirited game of curling on a frozen city canal, replete with curling stones and broom-wielding players. Regardless of its rudimentary beginnings, contemporary curling is a gift of Scotland. The sweeping of stones worn smooth from the scraping of the North Sea across frozen lochs was an established Scottish game by the 1600s and the modern version of curling was a national mania by the 1800s. In 1838 the Royal Caledonian Curling Club (originally called the Grand Caledonian Curling Club) was ushered into existence in Edinburgh and became the definitive governing body for the game. bodyOffer(27711) One of the things the RCCC did was standardize the rules for international play and those rules were needed as energetic Scottish emigrants were busily establishing the game on distant shores. The Royal Montreal Curling Club had been set up in Canada in 1807 and there was undoubtedly curling matches taking place on United States lakes from the time of the Revolution. The first organized curling club in the United States was the Orchard Lake Curling Club, chartered in 1832 at the home of Dr. Robert Burns. Dr. Burns and the boys curled on Lake St. Clair, near Detroit, Michigan.

75. ThinkQuest : Library : Unusual Sports In The Olympics
    There are no penalties in the sport of curling. In The olympics. curling was approved as an olympic medal sport in July 1992. The  
    http://library.thinkquest.org/J002862/curl.htm
    
    Extractions: Index Olympic Games Everyone has heard of figure skating and gymnastics, but how many people know the thrill of racing down an ice covered track on a sled or the beauty of water ballet? This web site explores the "unusual sports in the Olympics:" the ones that may not get much press attention, but that have dedicated athletes just the same. After visiting this informative and interactive site, you won't see the Olympics in the same light again. Visit Site 2000 ThinkQuest USA Awards Gold Want to build a ThinkQuest site? The ThinkQuest site above is one of thousands of educational web sites built by students from around the world. Click here to learn how you can build a ThinkQuest site. Privacy Policy

76. HickokSports.com - History - Curling
    curling has been a demonstration or exhibition sport at several olympics. It became a fullfledged olympic sport at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan.  
    http://www.hickoksports.com/history/curling.shtml
    
    Extractions: Alpha Index Index by Sport History Bits Forum ... Search Table of Contents There is solid evidence that curling was a sport in both Scotland and the Low Countries during the 16th century. The oldest known curling stone, found in Scotland, bears the date 1511, and a 1560 work by the Flemish painter, Pieter Breughel, shows a busy Dutch curling scene, complete with brooms. The game was played on frozen marshes in Scotland, using "channel stones" that had been worn smooth by the action of water, while the Dutch curled on the same frozen canals where ice skating flourished. As with golf, the question of where curling was "invented" will probably never be answered, but the Scots certainly have to be credited both with developing the modern version of the sport and with promoting the game in America. Scottish immigrants organized the Royal Montreal Curling Club in 1807 and the Orchard Lake, Michigan, Club in 1832. The Grand Caledonian Curling Club (later the Royal Caledonian Curling Club) was founded in 1838 at Edinburgh to become Scotland's national governing body and to standardize rules for international play. A branch of the Royal Caledonian was established in Canada in 1852 and the Grand National Curling Club of America, also an affiliate of the Royal Caledonian, was founded in 1867.

77. ECB Surf Report: Sports
    Unusual sports in the Olympics, created by elementary school students, highlights several lesser known sports, such as fencing and curling.  
    http://www.ecb.org/surf/sports.htm
    
    Extractions: 2002 Olympics Education from the Utah Education Network provides information tailored for students about Olympic sports, this year's games, the countries participating and more. The site also contains an extensive collection of activities worksheets and lesson plans designed to integrate the Olympics into the K-12 curriculum. Winter Olympics 2002: Ready Reference Resources from Direct Search lists links to sites with reference information such as Olympic statistics, history, news and more.

78. Curling Québec
    curling An olympic Sport. curling s olympic attendance Canadian curling Trials Accueil / curling News / curling An olympic Sport.  
    http://www.curling-quebec.qc.ca/olympique_en

79. Art 002 - Olympic Volleyball
    regularly participate in curling. curling finally became an official olympic Sport in 1998 at the Winter Games in Nagano, Japan.  
    http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/c/c/ccr130/art002/project/curling.html

80. SportsFilter | Columns
    Or darts? Or Scrabble? Or Monopoly? Why draw the line at curling? Let s get every pseudosport in there, so I have a chance at an olympic medal before I die.  
    http://www.sportsfilter.com/columns.cfm/more_ID/18.html
    
    Extractions: home archives columns post ... search by jacknose February 25, 2002 I hereby submit to the wisdom of Vince McMahon, Mark Burnett, and Gatorade. Life is a sport, sport is entertainment, and entertainment is life. I will drink it up from here on out. I will no longer be a sports snob. I will no longer have standards. I will no longer proclaim that curling and ice dancing are not sports. I will no longer question golf, billiards, bowling, surfing, auto racing, snowboarding, and figure skating. I will no longer suggest that sports require athleticism. I will no longer proclaim that judges are for pageants. In the spirit of my transformation, I will petition the IOC for the following “sports” to be included in future Olympic Games: Professional Wrestling. I cannot think of a better sport for the Olympic stage than professional wrestling. Fixed outcomes will be assumed, but we, the audience, will gladly accept the pretentiousness as long as the costumes are tight, the insults are loud, and the faux fighting is raw. Winners will be determined by television ratings. Rubik’s Cube Race.

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