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| Men PR Feb. 9 (14:00-) Men PR Feb. 10 ( 9:00-,19:00-) Men PR Feb. 11 (14:00-) Men PR Feb. 12 ( 9:00-,19:00-) Men PR Feb. 13 (14:00-) M&W Tie Breaks M&W Tie Breaks Women Semi Final Men Semi Final M&W (3,4) Women Final Men Final |
Women PR Feb. 9 ( 9:00-,19:00-) Women PR Feb. 10 (14:00-) Women PR Feb. 11 ( 9:00-,19:00-) Women PR Feb. 12 (14:00-) Women PR Feb. 13 ( 9:00-) Feb. 13 (19:00-) Feb. 14 ( 9:00-) Feb. 14 (14:00-) Feb. 14 (18:00-) Feb. 15 ( 9:00-) Feb. 15 (13:00-) Feb. 15 (17:00-) |
Exhibition match at the completed Curling venue (The Shinano Mainichi Shimbun, Nov. 21, 1996)
Viewer's guide
The rink used for Curling is 44.5 m long and 4.75 m wide. Each player of the four-member teams, alternating with the opposing team, delivers a 20 kg stone to a circle (house) which is located approximately 30 m distant. The team has eight stones, and each player delivers two of these. When the lead, second, third and skip have been delivered, the team with largest number of stones closest to the center of the house is awarded that end. This is repeated ten times (ten ends) and the team with the highest total score wins.
On the rink which has been polished and has no undulations, water droplets are sprayed upon it to create an infinite number of minute mountains of ice called pebbles. The stone is given a spin when released, and two sweepers brush the ice with brooms to melt these pebbles, thereby reducing friction, and thereby making minute changes to the sliding and curling of the stone. The strategy is totally different for previous attack and later attack, and shots must be used in a discriminating manner, such as the "take" which pushes the opposition's stones out of the house, and the "draw," which pulls one's own teams stones to the center or to the front of the house. According to the situation there may be severe strategies for each stone, which requires teamwork centering around the skip, the team's conning tower.
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