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Our Ask Me Anything team explain how the Winter Olympic sport of curling works.

Curling is often called “chess on ice” for good reason. The Olympic sport blends strategy, physics and teamwork as two teams slide 42-pound granite stones down a 150-foot sheet of ice toward a target called the house — a set of concentric circles ...

Curling dates to the 1700s and was among the handful of sports at the first Winter Olympics in 1924. It didn’t return until the 1998 Games with both men’s and women’s competition. It has grown in popularity and size: Curling will be the first sport ...

Craig Fischer, the president and co-founder of the Fort Wayne Curling Club, has seen tremendous interest each time the Olympics rolls around.