81. SportsFilter | Comments On 165 Will everybody please drop this insane curlingbashing? It s a great sport to watch on TV, winding down with realistic shot at one day being an olympic athlete http://www.sportsfilter.com/comments.cfm/165

@import "/lib/sportsFilterCSS2.css"; 05:02 AM home archives columns post ... search February 27, 2002 If curling is in the Olympics, why not bowling? The International Bowling Federation wants bowling to be an Olympic medal event. The benefits, according to their FAQ , are: the objectivity of its scoring, its gender equity, and the appeal of an additional demographic not otherwise drawn to the Games. Sounds good to me. posted by Prince Valium to Olympics at 4:32 PM CST (12 comments total) In curling you interact with your opponents' play, correct? In bowling you do not. If the activity itself isn't that exciting to watch, you need that direct interaction to heighten interest. Croquet would be a more exciting spectator sport than bowling. And I used to be a regular bowler as a kid. Somehow I never started smoking, though... posted by NortonDC at 5:09 PM CST on February 27 Yeah, sure, but can you drink in between frames? Or maybe to make it more interesting, should it be a requirement? posted by at 5:17 PM CST on February 27 NortonDC: If interaction with opponents is a prerequisite to legitimacy, then downhill skiing, most track and field events, gymnastics, and figure skating are out.

82. Usolympicteam.com curling debuted as a fullmedal olympic sport at the 1998 olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, but it appeared as a demonstration sport in six previous Games http://www.usolympicteam.com/sports2/cu/az_over.html

- 30-Second Guide to Curling Did You Know? Who Organizes Curling in the U.S.? Who Oversees Curling in the World? 30-Second Guide to Curling Curling is a team sport and, as such, features two four-player teams competing against each other on a narrow sheet of pebbled ice. Each team delivers highly-polished, dense, granite stones toward a target area called a house at the far end of the sheet. Only one team scores per end, getting one point for each stone they have closer to the center of the house than their opponent. Curling was developed in Scotland, and is hugely popular in Canada. Did You Know? Curling stones are made of rare, dense granite. The best curling granite is found on Ailsa Craig, an island off Scotland's coast. Each stone, or rock, weighs 42 pounds. Curling debuted as a full-medal Olympic sport at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, but it appeared as a demonstration sport in six previous Games. Curling is often called "chess on ice," linking the two because of the extreme importance of foresight, finesse and competitive strategy in each. It is also a favorite "off-season" sport of golfers. Curling is known as the "Roarin' Game" because of the rumbling sound the stone makes as it slides down the ice.

83. Curling curling is also popular in Canada, is played to some extent in the United States and other countries, and is a winter olympic sport. http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0814303.html

HOTWORDS CITE PRINT EMAIL in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... Father's Day Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map Also from Infoplease Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips Encyclopedia curling curling, winter sport, similar in principle to bowls and quoits (see horseshoe pitching The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Curley, James Michael curly-coated retriever Related content from HighBeam Research on: curling Potomac Curling Club to Get New Home in Laurel (The Washington Post) Curling (The Toronto Star) Roberts Likes Curling Up With Book (AP Online) Crazy for curling They got hooked watching the winter Olympics. Now wannabe curlers are flocking to ice arenas to learn how to play the game.(Suburban Living) (Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)) Curling (The 1998 Canadian Encyclopedia) Will curling sweep the nation? (USA Today) Can curling be cool ... again? (The Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland)) Where curling's all the rage; A sport that uses brooms and rocks may seem silly to some, but the young and the old at the Bemidji Curling Club are cheering on their homegrown Olympic heroes.(NEWS)

84. The I Hate Curling Page / NHL Sucks curling, No, No, Shuffleboard, NO! The quality of the 1998 Winter Olympics was diminished by Sport Inflation. It s time to eliminate some of the lesser sports . http://www.geocities.com/francis_uy/olympics.html

Frankie Say No Curling Winter Sport tradition strenuous Summer Equivalent Verdict Downhill Skiing Yes Yes Sprinting Yes Slalom Skiing Yes Yes Hurdles Yes Cross Country Skiing Yes Yes Distance Running Yes Biathlon Yes Yes Yes Ski Jumping Yes Yes Long Jump Yes Moguls Skiing No Yes Hurdles / Diving ? Yes Freestyle Skiing No Yes Diving Yes Snowboard Slalom No Yes Hurdles ? Yes Snowboard Halfpipe No Semi Skateboarding No Bobsled Yes No Soapbox Derby Maybe Luge Yes No Yes Speed Skating Yes Yes various track events Yes Short Track Skating No Yes Roller Derby No Figure Skating Yes Yes Gymnastics Yes Pairs Skating Yes Yes no comparison Yes Ice Dancing Yes No Ballroom Dancing No Ice Hockey Yes Yes Soccer Yes Curling No No Shuffleboard NO! The quality of the 1998 Winter Olympics was diminished by Sport Inflation. The IOC wants the winter games to earn as much money as summer does, so they're adding events that don't deserve to be in. It's time to eliminate some of the lesser "sports". Is it a well respected sport in most countries (that have snow)? Does it demand peak athletic performance from competitors? Is the most comparable summer activity also an Olympic sport?

85. SLAM! NAGANO: Curling including that terrifying, extraend semi-final culminating in the first gold medal awarded in the sport, was all 15 Schmirler claims olympic curling gold http://www.canoe.ca/SlamNaganoCurling/home.html

June 08, 2004 Hockey Baseball Basketball Football ... CANOE NAGANO '98 ISP DIRECTORY Pure prairie gold By TOM BRENNAN Team Sun Feb. 19: Full story Feb. 19: Golden Girls return home Tears flow in golden glow By CHRIS STEVENSON Ottawa Sun Feb. 16: Full story Feb. 15: Denmark to strike it rich Feb. 15: Canada goes straight to gold Feb. 15: Big golden relief for Schmirler Feb. 15: Schmirler claims Olympic curling gold Harris: 'We sucked' By CHRIS STEVENSON Ottawa Sun KARUIZAWA Mike Harris stood in the frosty air, the color drained from his face, his voice hoarse, his silver medal hanging around his neck. Feb. 15: Full story Feb. 15: Feb. 15: Canada settles for silver in men's curling Feb. 15: Norway wins men's bronze medal MORE HEADLINES Feb. 15: Swedish women win bronze medal Feb. 14: Canada in gold medal game Feb. 14: Denmark assured of first Winter Olympics medal Feb. 14: Harris beats U.S. to get to final Feb. 14: U.S. men still have shot at medal Feb. 14: U.S. in semis with dramatic win Archive of Olympic Curling Stories CANOE home feedback. ... Netgraphe Inc

86. SLAM! Sports - Curling Canada, sports news, scores, stats, features and more in Canada and abroad from SLAM! sports http://www.canoe.ca/SlamCurling/home.html

Inside CANOE.CA SLAM! Sports Jam! Showbiz CANOE Travel CNEWS CANOE Money C-Health LIFEWISE AUTONET flirt.canoe.ca Newsstand WHAM! gaming AllPop Search eBay.ca Find Old Friends Free E-Mail shop.canoe.ca CareerConnection Classified Extra Obituaries Today Restaurants Hotels Weather Horoscopes Lotteries Crossword Scoreboard News Ticker Sports Ticker TV Listings Movie Listings CLIVE Concerts Mutual Funds Stocks Feedback Index June 08, 2004 2004 BRIER NEWS COLUMNISTS Curling Index The Brier Tourn. of Hearts Worlds: Junior Champs. Mixed Champs. '02 Olympics WCT Rankings WCT Money Schmirler Sport Index Baseball Cdn. Baseball Basketball Boxing CIS Sports Cricket Curling Cycling Figure Skating CFL Football NFL Football Golf Hockey Junior Hockey Horse Racing Lacrosse Motorsports Olympics Rodeo Rowing Rugby Skiing Soccer Swimming Tennis Track Volleyball Winter sports Wrestling Other Sports Collectibles Big Events SCOREBOARD CONTESTS POLLS CHATS ... FUN.CANOE.CA ALERT: Canadians Drafted in 2004 MLB Draft All-stars curl for good cause A who's who of curling stars will gather at the Calgary Winter Club today. FULL STORY Record TV numbers for Brier Randy Ferbey's three-in-row rink set another Brier record. Largest TV audience ever.

87. New Zealand Curling Association Welcome to the web site of the New Zealand curling Association, the national governing body of the Winter olympic sport of curling. http://www.curling.org.nz/

Auckland Curling Welcome to the web site of the New Zealand Curling Association, the national governing body of the Winter Olympic sport of curling. Team NZ in action at the 1999 World Curling Championships Curling in New Zealand combines the great traditions of old, with the Olympic spirit of today's modern game. Crampit curling in Central Otago - late 1930s Young or old, man or woman, able bodied or physically challenged, curling is a winter sport for everyone. It's New Zealand's coolest game! Special Bonspiel Page!! For the first time in six years, an outdoor New Zealand Bonspiel was held in 2001. We have a special page with information and images about this unique event. Click here to go to the 2001 New Zealand Bonspiel page. 64 teams playing outdoors on natural ice in stunning Central Otago Kiwi Men Are Pacific Champions, Qualify for Worlds December 2003 New Zealand returns to the World Curling Championships in 2004, as the Kiwi team skipped by Sean Becker has won the 2003 Pacific Curling Championships in Aomori, Japan. Click here to see the website for the 2004 World Curling Championships in Gavle, Sweden.

88. Overlawyered Letters: Our Curling Ignorance 19) Yes, there turns out to be curling outside Canada. This is after all an olympic sport, though since no American team has ever proven to be competitive http://www.overlawyered.com/letters/archives/000696.html

Overlawyered letters Main January 06, 2004 Our curling ignorance I take exception to your comment ( Dec. 19 ): "Yes, there turns out to be curling outside Canada." This is after all an Olympic sport, though since no American team has ever proven to be competitive, you have fallen prey to the nationalistic bias most networks display (if none of ours are there, why mention it?). The sport is actually European in origin. Your comment seemed disdainful to Canada in general, and could be humorous, if it doesn't hide a lack of "non-US" culture so sadly associated with the American public in general. It would be disheartening to see what is touted as its think-tanks display the same flaw. Christian Houde, Montreal, Quebec, Canada As if to upbraid us further for our curling-related ignorance, the Jan. 2 New York Times carried a story entitled " Blame Canada: Curling Sweeps U.S. TrackBack Comments Post a comment Name: Email Address: URL: Remember personal info? Yes No Comments:

89. Curling Sport ESPN.com OLY curling Yes, it s an olympic sport Anyone can play with (broom) sticks and (granite) stones, but only the best call themselves curlers. http://www.spectster.com/cgi-bin/search/smartsearch.cgi?keywords=curling sport

90. Curling: The Roarin' Game—A World Sport to formulate rules of the sport of curling for world competitions and all other outwith the WCF but under it’s rules by national olympic curling Committees. http://www.seed.slb.com/en/watch/curling/world_sport.htm

Science Watch Science Lab Meet The Experts Careers SEED Journal Teacher's Corner About Science Center Contact SEED Get Involved ... SEED People Curling: The Roarin' Game Organization Of Curling As A World Sport The coach helps a junior curler A Curlers Progress to the Olympics To participate in Olympic curling is the pinnacle of a curlers career as it occurs at 4 year intervals rather than the yearly world championships. An Olympic curler starts out as a member of a local club attached to a local ice-rink. The team progresses by winning into provincial competitions (where several ice-rinks compete) The team then becomes a top contendor in competitions organised by WCF They go on to win national championships (where all the provinces compete) The team is selected to represent their country in international competition After winning a qualifying competition or scoring enough ranking points, the team is selected as the Olympic team!

91. Sandra Schmirler - Celebrating Women's Achievements / Women In Canadian Sport at the Biggar curling Club, which emerged as her favourite sport she would play at the 1997 Worlds with a win at the Canadian olympic curling Trials, earning http://www.collectionscanada.ca/women/h12-237-e.html

Sandra Schmirler Curling Sandra Schmirler was skip for one of the dominant rinks in women’s curling during the 1990s; her crowning achievement was winning the first gold medal for women’s curling at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. Through recognition of her performances, she also raised the profile of women’s curling at the national and international levels. She was born at Biggar, Saskatchewan in 1963, the youngest of three daughters of Art and Shirley Schmirler. Growing up, and attending Biggar Composite School, she excelled both academically and athletically, participating in swimming, volleyball, fastball, badminton, and track. It was curling, however, which she played from the age of twelve at the Biggar Curling Club, which emerged as her favourite sport - she would play on two provincial championship teams while in high school. Sandra went on to study physical education at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. During her last two years there, she curled on the Carol Davis rink. After graduating, she began curling as third with Kathy Fahlman. It was on this team that she met Jan Betker, who would become a close friend and life-long curling partner. After a disappointing performance at the 1990 provincial championships, Sandra decided to form her own team. In addition to Betker as third, she recruited Marcia Gudereit and Joan McCusker as lead and second respectively. This team won six provincial championships during the decade, and three Canadian championships, in 1993, 1994 and 1997. The team would go on to win the world championship in each of those years, a feat which at that time was unprecedented. No women’s team composed of the same four members had ever won more than one world title.

92. Crossmap| Christian Forums - Ironing An Olympic Sport!!!! Posts 30. Re Ironing An olympic Sport!!!! curling is very popular in Scotland where it originated, I think. http://forums.crossmap.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=105

93. Is Curling Really A Sport? Americans Aren't Sure - 2002 Winter Olympics Coverage After all, this is curling. The good news for curling is that it s gaining fans. That s what being an olympic sport will do for you. http://deseretnews.com/oly/view/0,3949,70001269,00.html

Format story for printing E-mail a copy of this story Is curling really a sport? Americans aren't sure By Brad Rock Deseret News sports columnist The United States women lost their semifinal match Wednesday, falling 9-4 to Switzerland in the Winter Olympics. That much most Americans understood. The loss cut the U.S. team out of a chance to win gold or silver, but left open the door for a bronze medal. That fact wasn't lost on the crowd at the Ogden Ice Sheet, either. Some of the other stuff, well, it'll take awhile. After all, this is curling. The good news for curling is that it's gaining fans. That's what being an Olympic sport will do for you. It's not like they didn't sell out the Ice Sheet for this week's competition. There's even a magazine of the sport, appropriately called Sweep. Perhaps the biggest boost curling has received, though, was this week when the American women earned a spot in the medal round. People who wouldn't know a hog line from a hog call were suddenly checking up on the game. One curling publicist has been receiving 150 e-mails a day. The American team has been receiving 200-300 e-mails daily. That, of course, doesn't mean curling is everyone's cup of ice. TV talk show host Jay Leno, for one, has had a week's worth of material, compliments of curling.

94. Curling Roundup: Curlers Hope Publicity Will Inspire Teens - 2002 Winter Olympic sport. When curling made its debut as an olympic sport at the 1998 Nagano Games, Britain lost the bronze medal game to Sweden. The http://deseretnews.com/oly/view/0,3949,70001341,00.html

Alpine skiing Biathlon Bobsled Cross country skiing ... E-mail a copy of this story Curling roundup: Curlers hope publicity will inspire teens By Tim Korte AP sports writer And nobody will laugh. She's not nagging the kids to clean their room. Swisshelm wants her sport, curling, to ride an Olympic publicity wave into the lives of young people around the United States. "How cool would it be to walk around with a broom?" Swisshelm asked after Canada beat the Americans 9-5 in the women's bronze medal game Thursday. "You'd have to be a pretty cool teen-ager to do that." Britain beat Switzerland 4-3 for the gold medal in a dramatic finish that was decided in the 10th end. OK, so curling may have trouble challenging skeleton, short-track speedskating, snowboarding and freestyle skiing for the short attention spans of American teens. It would have helped to win medals, as those sports did, but the curlers have a growing fan base. Team members received e-mails from fraternity houses after their Olympic matches were shown on cable television. "For a 30-plus athlete, it's pretty cool to have fan mail from a 19-year-old," said the 33-year-old Swisshelm.

95. Olympic Sports At The Sports Ink! ESpInk.com eSpInk.com olympic sports at The sports Ink. Your olympic sports scouting center at eSpInk.com. Latest olympic sports news olympic sports Scouting Center http://www.espink.com/contents/olympics.shtml

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96. Press Box - Week In Review-U.S. Olympic Sport Highlights - 4/3/2002 www.usocpressbox.org, complete with highlights concerning US olympic sporting news form of complete stories on this web site (search by sport). curling (Mar. http://www.usocpressbox.org/usoc/pressbox.nsf/0/f5974ca990902a9387256b90006c1954

97. Winter Olympics - 2002 USE THE MENU BAR BELOW TO LEARN MORE ABOUT olympic sports. Select a sport. http://cfapp.rockymountainnews.com/winterOlympics02/index.cfm?view=sportevents&e

98. Hometown Homepage - Karuizawa A Local Celebrity And when Nagano was chosen to host the 1998 Winter olympic Games, Mr. Ueda worked full force to get curling admitted as an official olympic sport. http://www.infocreate.co.jp/hometown/karuizawa/hito-e.html

Ueda Yuichi Assistant Director, Nagano Prefecture Curling Association The game of curling is played by sliding a stone that has a handle attached to it and shuffling it to the goal with a curling brush. Mr. Ueda, who is a sports instructor first encountered this peculiar game 10 years ago. "Sports instructors have a mission to explore and spread new sport activities. I was trying to fulfill my duties when I found a book on curling at a convention. I said to myself, `This is it,' especially because the book was translated by an elder graduate of my high school." About one month later, Mr. Ueda received a phone call from this elder graduate who informed that he was speaking at a seminar. "The timing couldn't have been better. I had a feeling that curling would be a perfect sport for Karuizawa because there is a skating rink here that we could use year round. The seminar confirmed my belief. So I got a couple of people together, and since then have been totally consumed by the sport." For ten years, Mr. Ueda promoted curling. And when Nagano was chosen to host the 1998 Winter Olympic Games, Mr. Ueda worked full force to get curling admitted as an official Olympic sport. To his avail, the Nagano Winter Games became the first Olympics where curling was to be an official sport.

99. Becoming A Medal Sport For example, curling is a medal sport this year because at least ten important olympic nations compete in the annual World curling Championships (United States http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/homepages/020698/text/medal.htm

Becoming a 'medal sport' Curling takes to the ice at Nagano By Jayne Spencer If the Winter Olympics warm your blood, they start tomorrow (Feb. 7) in Nagano, Japan. And if you are interested in how global politics, history and circumstance have influenced Olympic play for more than a century, warm up your computer while the television commercials are on and travel to Indiana University Southeast Professor John Findling's USA TODAY Online's "Findling's Findings" Web site. (You'll find the address at the end of this story.) Despite a whopping price tag of $10.5 billion, nearly twice that of the 1996 Centennial Summer Games in Atlanta, Ga., "medal play" for the first time in curling, snowboarding and women's ice hockey, and continuing fears of what El Nino might do to the deep powder on competition slopes, the Winter Olympics will be "fairly standard," the IUS historian predicts. Findling is the co-editor of the Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996) and notes that Japan hosted the Summer Games at Tokyo in 1964 and the Winter Games in 1972 at Sapporo. And curling, you say. What exactly is it? Well, it's a team sport on ice, quite popular in Canada. An unscientific survey by the Home Pages finds that only one out of every 18 Hoosiers has ever heard of it. But it's not at all uncommon to have new sports introduced, either as "demonstration" (or exhibition) sports or as "medal sports" at the Olympics, Findling said. At Atlanta, for example, women's soccer was contested as a medal sport for the first time.

100. Scotsman.com Sport - Salt Lake City 2002 - Olympic Medal Winners Brush Off Appro olympic medal winners brush off approach from lingerie firm Jill Stevenson SCOTLAND’S olympic curling champions have We want to promote the sport, not any http://sport.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=209&id=240712002

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