An event where athletes slide stones down the ice and sweep in front of the stones is called what?
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It's the sport called curling.
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you slide a weight on the ice, kind of like team shuffleboard on ice skates with a 50-pound puck, and people doing a lot of silly things like sweeping the ice in front of the puck to make it slide better.  Canadians and Scots love it.  Google it.
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Basically you have to get your teams stones closer to the centre of the house than they other team. This can either be done by drawing (putting a new stone in the house), raising (knocking another one of your stones into the house), or take out (removing one of the other teams stones). The brushing the ice reduces friction and makes the stones travel faster and can be used to make the stone change course.\n\nCurling is a team game so no one player is the best, as they all do different jobs, the skip is usually the best at takeouts and is last to play in each end, but other players are better at sweeping, while some players are good tacticians.
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The Olympics! (ie. not the winter olympics)\nThe winter olympics simply involes people sliding, almost every single winter olympics event is just another way to slide!\nEdit: I have to disagree with harley01xlc - The olympics (in my experience) are one of the least comcialised, very large scale sporting events in existence.
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How about "The Miracle on Ice"  US defeats Soviets.  \n\nHappened in 1980 Winter Olympics
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Rules of Curling\n\nCurling is a team game that is performed on a frozen pitch, the concept of which is very similar to bocci. It consists of sliding 19.96 kg blocks of stone (called rocks) which have a handle so that they stop as close as possible to the centre of a target drawn on the ice (called the house).\nThe team\nEach team consists of four players. The lead is the one that makes the first throw. The second is a good points maker, but also good at eliminating the stones of the opponents that are in the way. The third is faced with a more tricky game. The fourth player, the skip, is the most experienced player, who devises tactics, advises his teammates on each throw and throws last.\nThe delivery of the rock\nThe lead makes the first throw, known as the delivery, from a type of block known as a hack. In order for the delivery to be valid, the rock must be released before a line known as the hog line. The two leads deliver their rocks one after the other, followed by the 4 deliveries of the two seconds and the 4 deliveries of the two thirds, while each end is concluded by the four stones delivered by the two skips.\nSweeping\nFollowing the delivery, two sweepers go into action. They position themselves on the ice (called the sheet) a couple of steps ahead of the rock and, with brooms made of horse hair, hog hair or synthetic material, sweep the ice in front of the rock to help determine its path, prolong the rotation of the rock, and extend or shorten its path. The sweeping is performed in a side to side motion directly in front of the stone, and the last movement of the broom must be made towards the outside. Once the stone has passed the tee line the skip or second are allowed to sweep. They can only start sweeping after the opponent's stone has passed said line. On the other hand, by stopping the sweeping action at the right time, the stone can be slowed and stopped at a precise point. The sweepers can only sweep in the area between the two teelines.\nGame strategy\nLike in bocci, a stone can knock the opponent's stone out of the scoring area. The skip can therefore ask his teammates to deliver the stone in the house (draw) or to knock an opponent's stone out of the way (take out). Game strategy can be very complicated based on score and game situations.\nScoring\nPoints are calculated based on the number of stones that finish closest to the centre of the house, before the closest stone of the opponent. Only one team can score in an end. Each team is allowed 73 minutes of play for 10 ends. If the match is a tie, an extra end is played to determine the winner.\nField of play\nCurling Sheet\n\nSheet: A 44.5 m long area of play. Its shape allows to play in both directions.\nHouse: The area where points are scored: 3.66 m in diameter, with internal rings of 1.22 and 2.44 m in diameter.\nTee: The centre of the house, also known as the button.\nHack: A rubber foothold from which curlers deliver the stone.\nHog Line: The stone must be released before the near hog line, and travel beyond the far hog line, otherwise it is removed from play.
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Ice Hockey. One of the fastest moving exciting sports.....
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Ice hockey\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\nJump to: navigation, search\nFor the NES video game of the same title, see Ice Hockey (video game).\nIce hockey, referred to simply as "hockey" in Canada and the United States, is a team sport played on ice. It is one of the world's fastest sports, with players on skates capable of going high speeds on natural or artificial ice surfaces. The most prominent ice hockey nations are Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and the United States. While there are 64 total members of the International Ice Hockey Federation, those seven nations have dominated ice hockey. Of the sixty medals awarded in men's competition at the Olympic level from 1920 on, only six did not go to one of those countries (or a former entity thereof, such as Czechoslovakia or the Soviet Union) and only one such medal was awarded above bronze. [1]\n\nIce hockey's worldwide popularity is concentrated primarily in locales cold enough for natural, long-term seasonal ice cover. It is one of the four major North American professional sports, represented by the National Hockey League (NHL) at the highest level. It is the official national winter sport of Canada, where the game enjoys immense popularity. Six of the thirty NHL franchises are based in Canada, but Canadians currently outnumber Americans in the league by a ratio of almost three to one, and about thirty percent of the league's players are non-North Americans. The sport's popularily in the US is centralized in certain regions, notably the Northeast, the Upper Midwest, and Alaska.\n\nContents [hide]\n1 History \n1.1 Foundation of the modern game \n1.2 The Professional Era \n2 Equipment \n3 Game \n4 Penalties \n5 Tactics \n6 Periods and overtime \n7 Women's ice hockey \n8 Sledge hockey \n8.1 Sport description \n8.2 History of sledge hockey \n9 International competition \n10 Hockey in popular culture \n11 Attendance Records \n12 Terminology \n12.1 Statistics \n12.2 Personnel \n12.3 Rink \n12.4 Penalties \n12.5 Shot types \n12.6 Game play/random \n12.7 Equipment \n13 See also \n14 External links \n15 Notes \n \n\n\n[edit]\nHistory\n \nDutch burghers playing a game that looks much like ice hockey. \nDutch burghers playing a game that looks much like ice hockey.Games between teams hitting an object with curved sticks have been played throughout the world since prehistoric times. The word "hockey" has been used since the 16th century, but its etymology is uncertain. It may derive from the Old French word hoquet, shepherd's crook, but it may also derive from the Middle Dutch word hokkie which is the diminutive of hok, meaning literally shack or doghouse, but which in popular use meant goal. Many of these games were developed for fields, though where conditions allowed, they were also played on icy conditions , as shown in 16th-century Dutch paintings where a number of townsfolk play a hockey-like game on a frozen canal\n\nEuropean immigrants brought various versions of hockey-like games to North America, such as the Scottish sport of shinty, and the closely-related Irish sport of hurling. Where necessary these seem to have been adapted for icy conditions; for example, a colonial Williamsburg newspaper records hockey being played in a snow storm in Virginia. Both English- and French-speaking Canadians played hockey on frozen rivers, lakes, and ponds using cheese cutters strapped to their boots, and early paintings show hockey being played in Nova Scotia. There are claims that ice hockey was invented in Windsor, Nova Scotia and named after an individual, as in 'Colonel Hockey's game'[2]. Proponents of this theory point out that the surname Hockey exists in the district surrounding Windsor, though this is an unlikely coincidence. Author Thomas Chandler Haliburton wrote of boys from King's College School in Windsor playing "hurley on the ice" when he was a student there around
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Wrong kind of ice game. A sweeper is a position in curling. Sweeping helps with getting the stone down to the house where the skip wants it placed (in a nutshell).
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I believe the floor is on top of the ice
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it has always been like that, and depending on who you ask, one is always better than the other. After seeing the 2006 olympics, i have a preference for the nhl rinks because now the games are always by the same rules(before, international and nhl were slightly different) and the smaller ice allows for more hitting and a faster game!
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Ballet!!!\n\nOk, its not a sport, but it takes as much if not more effort to gracefully expend all that energy.
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Curling, definitely. Thats all I can think of right now. lol
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Freestyle Skiing\nThe word "mogul" comes from the Austrian word "mugel," which means "small hill" or "mound."\n\nFigure Skating\nMen's gold medal favorite Yevgeny Plushenko is the first and only skater in history to successfully land a quad-triple-triple jump combination in competition. \n\nCurling\nCurling is one of four winter Olympic sports contested indoors. The other three are hockey, figure skating, and speed skating.\n\nLuge\nGerman Luge master Georg Hackl will attempt to add to his legend and win a medal in his sixth straight games at Turin in 2006. Hackl is already the only athlete to medal in the same event in five straight games.\n\nNordic Combined \nNordic combined is one of three current Olympic Winter Games events in which the United States has never won a medal. (Biathlon and curling are the others.)\n\nSnowboarding\nAccording to the National Sporting Goods Association, U.S. consumers spent nearly than $270 million on snowboarding equipment in 2004. That's more than hockey and football equipment combined ($225 million).\n\nSkeleton\nAmerican Jennison Heaton won the first skeleton gold medal in 1928, beating his brother John, who took the silver, by one second. A 39-year-old John Heaton would win the silver again in 1948, finishing second to Italy's Nino Bibbia. American Jim Shea, Jr., won the men's gold in the 2002 return of the sport to the Olympics. \n\nIce Hockey\nIce hockey made its Olympic debut at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. The first Winter Olympics didn't take place until 1924.\n\nSpeed Skating\n American Shani Davis narrowly failed in his historic attempt to compete on both the long track and short track speed skating teams at the same Olympics but as the world record holder in the men's 1500 meters he will still be a favorite to medal in the long track events at Turin.\n\nAlpine Skiing\nAmerican skier and Turin gold medal threat Lindsey Kildow was awarded a cow by some local dairy farmers for her World Cup win in Val D'Isere, France in 2005. She had a choice between the cow or an additional $1,200 in prize money. She went with the cow.\n\nBiathlon\nThe first known biathlon competition took place between two Norwegian guard companies in 1767.\n\nBobsled\nIt's been 18 years since the Jamaican bobsled team made its debut at the Olympics. \n\nSki Jumping\nThe oldest man to receive a Winter Olympics medal is 83-year-old Anders Haugen. The Norwegian-American actually received his ski jump bronze medal 50 years after he competed in 1924 when a scoring error was discovered in 1974.\n\nWinter Olympics Through the Years\nThe Shea Family of Lake Placid, New York, is the first to produce three generations of Olympians. Father Jack, 91, was a double-gold medalist in speed skating, son Jim, Sr., was a U.S. ski team member at the 1964 Innsbruck Games, and in 2002 grandson Jim, Jr., won a gold medal in skeleton.\n\nAll-Time Medal Standings\nOnly two countries south of the equator have ever won medals at the Olympic Winter Games—Australia and New Zealand.\n\nWisconsin\nLegends Eric Heiden and Dan Jansen , as well as current stars Chris Witty and Casey FitzRandolph, are from the same U.S. state, Wisconsin.\n\nNorway\nNorway has won more gold medals at the Winter Games than any other country.
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I love watching Ice skating..now doing it, thats a different story..they make it look so easy sometimes..I Just like everything about it...always have since I was a child...it's definetly my favorite event in the olympics..too bad USA didn't get gold..oh well..silver is good!!
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Yes.\n\nCurling is a precision team sport similar to bowls or bocce, played on a rectangular sheet of prepared ice by two teams of four players each, using heavy polished granite stones which they slide down the ice towards a target area called the house. Points are scored for the number of stones that a team has closer to the center of the target than the closest of the other team's stones. The level of precision and complex nature of the strategic thinking required to win has led curling to be referred to as "chess on ice."
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Really, no wonder people think that the world is heading in the wrong direction! The Winter Olympics are the biggest sporting festival in the world, second only to the Summer Games. How can you be so darn negative?