Curling is in full expansion, a few years ago nobody knew what it was, and today at least, a few already know. Curling is a sport of precision, similar to English or bowling alley, which is practiced in an ice rink. Two teams of four players each competing with the objective of launching 8 sliding granite stones weighing 20 kg each on a ice corridor 45.5 meters (146 feet) long and 4.75 meters ( 15 feet 7 inches) wide. Once all the throws, points are awarded depending on the proximity of these stones at the target marked in the center down the hall. It is practiced primarily in Canada, North America and northern Europe. Because of the complex strategies that may arise during the game, it has sometimes been called "chess on ice"
There is evidence of the existence of Curling at the beginning of the sixteenth century is preserved as a curling stone dated 1511. The first appearance of the word curling in a written document dating from 1620 in Perth, Scotland. In the early days, the stones were simply rocks extracted from the rivers, and sometimes were polished and fitted shape. The pitcher had little control over the stone, and the game depended more on luck than skill or strategy. The curling played on the outside was very popular in Scotland between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Curling is an Olympic sport since the Nagano Games in 1998.
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