Mixed doubles curling teams consist of just two players — a woman and a man — instead of the usual four players per team.
Matches are eight ends long, not 10, and the two players alternate throwing five stones per end instead of eight: one player throws the first and last stones, while the other throws the second, third, and fourth rocks.
Mixed doubles adds a wrinkle. The team with the hammer decides where the stone is positioned; if the team places its stone as the guard, however, the other team gets to take the last shot of the end. In a perfect world, would curling power plays involve broomstick fighting and a penalty box like they do in hockey, rather than moving rocks around?
But a more genteel game will do just fine. Mixed doubles scoring is the same as the traditional curling game. The team with the most stones closest to the button earns the points in that end. This year is no exception. Write to Sean Gregory at sean. By Sean Gregory. Related Stories. Olympic Figure Skating Lineup Announced. Now You Know. Latest Fitness. Get Daily Fitness Inspiration Right in your inbox. Customize Select the topics that interest you:.
Working Out. Weight Loss. Book Swipe Shop. We're Hiring! Then, between and , curling was intermittently held solely as a demonstration sport, meaning it was presented just to raise awareness of the sport, and none of the medals won actually counted toward a country's final tally. After being relegated to demonstration status at the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid Games in , the Calgary Games in , and the Albertville Games in , both men's and women's curling officially joined the program in Nagano in In , however, the International Olympic Committee decided to retroactively upgrade the curling medals from that first Olympics in from demonstration to official medals.
Like many sports, curling has its own distinct terminology and rules that make it unique. Teams with the closest stone to the button get rewarded a point. Moreover, if that team has multiple stones near the button, those also get a point.
The team with the most points after 10 "ends" wins the game. All curlers must wear two different types of shoes while playing the game. Sweepers use the gripper shoe to get more traction down on the ice, so they can sweep faster and cleaner. During a tournament at the Regina Curling Club in , he ordered a pizza in the middle of play and proceeded to eat slices on the ice with his teammates while his opponents were curling. So we just ordered a pizza. In March the International Paralympic Committee granted official medal status to wheelchair curling for mixed gender teams.
The organising committee of the Torino Paralympic Winter Games in agreed to include wheelchair curling in their programme. Other international events introduced in included World Senior Curling Championships for women and men. Also, that year, the European Youth Olympic Festival introduced a curling competition for junior women and men between 15 and 18 years of age.
Mixed doubles curling marks a break from traditional curling, as teams are comprised of two players — one female and one male. In , the discipline was accepted as an additional event for the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang , in South Korea — where eight teams competed for medals. In , the International Paralympic Committee also confirmed that the wheelchair curling event in PyeongChang in would be expanded from 10 to 12 teams.
Mixed doubles was increased, from eight to ten teams, for the Olympic Winter Games Beijing , in China. This was the first Olympic Winter sport to have such an artefact at the museum.
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