Curling can be confusing to watch if you aren't familiar with the sport. Here's what to know ahead of Team USA's mixed doubles gold medal match.
Curling, as is the tradition every four years, becomes a beloved sport for Olympics viewers who fall in love all over again with the sport played on ice with giant stones from Scotland and brooms.
A truly straight path down the ice is impossible, so putting purposeful spin, or curl, on the stone allows for more control — hence the name “curling.” The faster a rock moves down the ice, the less ...
The Davis Cup is the biggest annual team competition in tennis, taking place all over the world and involving around 275 ties ...
For at least a decade, the quadruple axel jump was figure skating’s white whale. “It’s been this unreachable thing, like the four-minute mile” once was, says Matthew Lind, a technical specialist for U ...
The 10-Point Must System is the standard scoring method used in professional boxing worldwide. It was first formally adopted by the World Boxing Council (WBC) in 1968 and is now mandated under the ABC ...
Competitors of all ages have spoken of their love of speedcubing – solving the Rubik's cube and its variants as quickly as ...
Games of curling are 10 rounds, also known as ends. In each end, teams throw a total of eight stones, taking turns one at a time. In the mixed doubles event, the two teams throw a total of five stones ...
The sculptor’s rejected playgrounds and plazas come back into view at his namesake museum.