Kings of the World: The Curling Richardsons". CBC Television. 13 March 2004. Archived from the original on 28 April 2007. Curling Explained to non Curlers by Cameron Scott". Sporting Life 360. 14 February 2010. Archived from the original on 9 February 2014 . Retrieved 10 February 2014.

Kerr, John (1890). The History of Curling: And Fifty Years of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club. Edinburgh: David Douglas. p.79 . Retrieved 14 February 2018. The stone must be released before its front edge crosses the near hog line. In major tournaments, the " Eye on the Hog" sensor is commonly used to enforce this rule. The sensor is in the handle of the stone and will indicate whether the stone was released before the near hog line. The lights on the stone handle will either light up green, indicating that the stone has been legally thrown, or red, in which case the illegally thrown stone will be immediately pulled from play instead of waiting for the stone to come to rest. The world's oldest curling stone". The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum. Archived from the original on 3 March 2018 . Retrieved 15 February 2018.Top curling teams say they won't use high-tech brooms". CBC News. 16 October 2015. Archived from the original on 22 October 2015 . Retrieved 21 October 2015. In Darvel, East Ayrshire, the weavers relaxed by playing curling matches using the heavy stone weights from the looms' warp beams, fitted with a detachable handle for the purpose. [21] Central Canadian curlers often used 'irons' rather than stones until the early 1900s; Canada is the only country known to have done so, while others experimented with wood or ice-filled tins. [22] Curling 8 Ender". YouTube. Archived from the original on 22 September 2011 . Retrieved 20 October 2010. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( February 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) a b c "The Rules of Curling and Rules of Competition". World Curling Federation. October 2022 . Retrieved 15 June 2023.

Eight is Great! Asham World Curling Tour Events, Including Grand Slams, move to Eight-End Format". World Curling Tour. Archived from the original on 19 September 2016 . Retrieved 18 September 2016. The winner is the team having the highest number of accumulated points at the completion of ten ends. Points are scored at the conclusion of each of these ends as follows: when each team has thrown its eight stones, the team with the stone closest to the button wins that end; the winning team is then awarded one point for each of its own stones lying closer to the button than the opponent's closest stone. Many different types of shots are used to carefully place stones for strategic or tactical reasons; they fall into three fundamental categories as follows:Kerr, John (1890). History of curling, Scotland's ain game, and fifty years of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club. Edinburgh: David Douglas. p.402 . Retrieved 16 February 2018.

Wetzel, Dan (19 February 2010). "Don't take curling for granite". Yahoo! Sports. Archived from the original on 25 February 2010 . Retrieved 4 August 2012. Top curling championships are typically played by all-male or all-female teams. It is known as mixed curling when a team consists of two men and two women. For many years, in the absence of world championship or Olympic mixed curling events, national championships (of which the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship was the most prominent) were the highest-level mixed curling competitions. However, a European Mixed Curling Championship was inaugurated in 2005, a World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was established in 2008, and the European Mixed Championship was replaced with the World Mixed Curling Championship in 2015. A mixed tournament was held at the Olympic level for the first time in 2018, although it was a doubles tournament, not a four-person. The word curling first appears in print in 1620 in Perth, Scotland, in the preface and the verses of a poem by Henry Adamson. [7] [8] The sport was (and still is, in Scotland and Scottish-settled regions like southern New Zealand) also known as "the roaring game" because of the sound the stones make while traveling over the pebble (droplets of water applied to the playing surface). [9] The verbal noun curling is formed from the Scots (and English) verb curl, [10] which describes the motion of the stone. The process of sliding a stone down the sheet is known as the delivery or throw. Players, with the exception of the skip, take turns throwing and sweeping; when one player (e.g., the lead) throws, the players not delivering (the second and third) sweep (see Sweeping, below). When the skip throws, the vice-skip takes their role. In February 2002, the International Olympic Committee retroactively decided that the curling competition from the 1924 Winter Olympics (originally called Semaine des Sports d'Hiver, or International Winter Sports Week) would be considered official Olympic events and no longer be considered demonstration events. Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outdoors, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France. A demonstration tournament was also held during the 1932 Winter Olympic Games between four teams from Canada and four teams from the United States, with Canada winning 12 games to 4. [28] [29]The score is marked on a scoreboard, of which there are two types; the baseball type and the club scoreboard. When a stone is touched when stones are in play, the remedies vary. [30] between leaving the stones as they end up after the touch, replacing the stones as they would have been if no stone were touched, or removal of the touched stone from play. In non-officiated league play, the skip of the non-offending team has the final say on where the stones are placed after the infraction.