Olympic Curling: How Hard Can It Be? | Winter Olympics 2014
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- Curling may seem relatively easy compared to other Olympic sports such as, say, ski jumping. But launching a 40-pound rock down a sheet of ice toward a specific target requires a high-degree of balance, precision and athleticism.
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Balance. Coordination. Core strength (sweeping looks easy but is very strenuous). Strategy. Extreme accuracy. If you think curling isn't a real sport, you've never played it.
bru...
+Bryan S erm....
Lol all your doing is pushing a rock on ice
I don't doubt it's a sport, but it's a stupid sport.
Diablerie Tandino you just said you doubt it is a sport so why did you say it is a stupid sport
The first time I ever saw curling I was a kid & they were doing a story about a local team on the news.Well being a kid,I totally wasn't paying attention to what they were saying, so I came to the conclusion on my own that what happened was a bunch of janitors were screwing around at work,made a game out of waxing the floor,& it was so funny they put it on the news, lol. I thought the stone was some kind of floor waxing device,& I didn't realize they were on ice,I thought it was a white linoleum floor. I was shocked to later find out that it was an actual sport, & an olympic sport that's been around a long time at that
This is too extreme for me! :P
Watching Curling always makes me smile as opposed to watching Downhill, where a mistake can kill the skiier.
This is a great game, like most of people, I thought it was a matter of pushing the stone into the bullseye, but that´s the starting point, after that the 2 teams take turns to knock-off each others stones or to move in better position the ones they own, and with each throw it gets more complicated to achieve one or the other, that´s why it´s called chess on ice.
Great game, just found this out on wikipedia.
I don't understand people knocking this sport. Some of the same complaints about it being "non-athletic" could be aimed at golf or baseball. And shouldn't we be thankful for a Winter Olympic sport whose result is not decided by judges or by the vagaries of snow conditions?
Completely agree Will.
exactly.its GAME not a sport and it should be banned from winter olympics
badspy100 thanks mr keyboard warrior who has never stepped on the ice for your input
Don't knock it till you've tried it. The strategy of the game has been described as chess on ice. I don't expect non curlers to understand that, but if your interested and have the chance, give it try. I've been working at improving my game for 30 years and although I get better each year, I'm still eons from the competitive curlers. At their level you have to be in top physical shape as sweeping makes or breaks a well thrown shot.
Exactly, people claim that you don't have to be athletic to be a good curler but I guess they haven't heard of Team Jacobs, the Canadians who just won gold at the Olympics in curling. That entire team is as good of shape, or better than any of the other Olympians, and that's WHY they won.
This is fun to watch for some reason xp
Because it’s satisfying
This shows you what it's like. It's challenging, requiring mental strategy and physical strength. Since Yu Jen is physically fit she would be good at it. Because it's played in teams it is also social. There are women's teams as well as men's teams. Both are Olympic events
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Me into my crush’s dms
Chess, golf, billiards, yoga, skating, and math and communication skills rolled into one sport. Cool. I'm pretty confident very few people could do this. Oh, and its historical ties. Super cool sport.
ofc it's cool it's played on ice
Out of all the things they did not put in the Olympics they put cleaning Ice
It looks like it is somewhat in the hockey family
This is my curling club. Dean is on my mom's team
It honestly looks like a fun thing to do I mean I am good at swifering
There's no way that a gold medalist in curling can stand next to a gold medalist like Michael Phelps and feel like they've put forth the same amount of effort. Absolutely no way.
You absolutely can. Maybe physically Phelps would exert more effort, but mentally curlers would have to exert as much if not more effort. A great curler needs to be able to know what to do in all the millions of scenarios on the ice kinda like chess), and also needs to have the leg control to make all shots necessary. Sweepers need to be able to judge a rock's speed from the moment of release in order to communicate to the skip where it will end up. My coach has been playing the sport for 40 years and there is still new things that he is learning about the sport, so that kinda shows how watching it is only the tip of the iceberg.
My point exactly. That's the reason why golf is not an Olympic event, nor are golfers considered athletes. Same thing applies to curling.
+adamgh0 but curling and golf, are more interesting, and skillful cant really argue that, curling and golf are skills that u learn and practice, micheal phelps was more or less born a good swimmer
Nobody is born an athlete. It takes just as much training and practice as anything else in life. Honey boo boo's mom sure as hell wasn't.
Golfing is on the olympic program.
It's too complicated for most Americans to understand. Sarcasm for those who say that the sport is stupid. Try it and I am certain that you won't call it stupid anymore.
Im around south plainfield! cool video btw
What if I told you this sport is tougher than ice-hockey ... Haha!
pool on ice, with a broom...with some target practice.
The only Olympic event you can play while drinking beer. You could be over 250 lbs and still be good at curling. How and why is this even considered to be a display of athleticism?
250 lbs and good at curling? You've obviously never played. You can also play hockey while drinking beer on the bench, or any of the other sports while you're not actually partaking in the action, and in curling (just like every other sport) you wouldn't be able to drink a beer while actually playing, just while waiting to play. Also, go and deliver one of those rocks into the house properly and tell me that it wasn't even remotely athletic. People are so quick to bash something they absolutely zero knowledge about in order to feel superior, quite silly really.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you just don't know about curling, but you are very wrong. Curlers have to be very fit, sweeping is a lot more difficult and energy consuming than it looks. Look at the Canadian men's team in Sochi, they're built like firemen. Second, you're playing for half the game and constantly strategizing, so no, you can't just sit back and have a beer the whole time.
If you don't like it, don't watch this, trolls. And when you can beat the best Canadian, let me know.
You seem offended. Why? Who wants to watch a bunch of nutjobs running across ice with bog brushes, hoovers and a dog bowl?
DameTrace McKenzie Whut?
James Keats Have you noticed his Avatar is Brevik, that Norwegian mass murderer? Enough said.
William Perr
DO THEY GET DRUG TESTED FOR THIS SO CALLED SPORT YOU MAY NEED TO BE ON SOME THING TO WANT TO PLAY IT
Janitor Olympics!
Where's stu woo? I liked him more.
Why'd they broke the camera at the end? Overkill...
I was at gym and thought to myself. Why the heck are they showing them clean the ice so much.
haha... they've got to keep it clean and smooth!
My aunt won these olympics
A sport which involves sweeping? Why isn't Mexico winning gold!?!
HAHAHA this made my day.
Americans would be getting last :/
studywar i know :(
studywar you’re so ignorant but that’s funny
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Where's stu woo?
Its really strange to see the bulgarian flag on the wall. I dont think we had curling team ever. I am really surprised. And its in the center of all flags. Really, really strange.
Speechless
These people say they are in New Jersey but that can't teach fellow Americans how to play. Okay we get it theres a "broom" that doesn't look like a broom but it looks so hard on TV for Americans it really does.
Here a week after Eve Muirhead n Co won
I love curling
This proofs it on his second try he hit bullseye 😂
Uh...I have heard "shoot the rock" in basketball and now with curling "slide the rock" !!
Its an interesting sport but the parodies are too funny xD
this is a sport? seriously? lol
I obviously don't even have to ask you if you've done it before.
Ya... but they want to band wrestling... ridiculous
Why are people in the US so ignorant about the real world
😂yes it is
Trust me it is
Looks more like mopping than sweeping to me...
Here showing my wife how she looks trying to sweep faster than our baby crawling after her 😂🤣
curling has me hurling
so horsehoes for eskimoes
I seriously have to do a math project on this. Ignorant.
How'd the math project go
lol
Hm
Dope
Haaaaarrrrrrrrrrd!!!!!
Svens
And squash is not in olympics...
Is this a joke?
Still more engaging and fun than American football.
Goota be stoned to play.. Lol
Really???
why
this reminds me of marbles
And I thought golf was the most boring sport.
Is curling technically a "sport"? Endurance: not required, Strength: not required, Athletic coordination: check. 1 out of 3 = not a sport. :D
Endurance and strength are absolutely required. You've obviously never curled before. Top level curling athletes train just like any other athlete. They're in the gym and on the ice almost every day. A game lasts about 2 hours and an entire competition can last 2 weeks. You have to have a lot of stamina to be physically and mentally ready for that.
Annmarie D so what it's still gay!!!
leonf1111 wow. You're a remarkable human.
75k views and 100 like....., someone paid for a few views lol .... Nice vid anyway thumbs up
" you wouldn't be able to drink a beer while actually playing, just while waiting to play" No shit. Just like bowling, which isn't an olympic event and not far off from curling.
I wish I could get enough people to help me get curling removed from Winter Olympics. I just laugh when someone talks about curling like it is a sport. You are playing an "old man's game!" Real athletes will laugh at you behind your back. I am sure they feel somehow insulted that the IOC accepted curling as a sport, because it is not a sport. It is like chess on ice. What the f..k is so hard about that?
this is not a sport.its a parody.
Medals for using a broom. Perfect sport for millennials :)
real athletes laugh at curling. it is just hilarious to watch them and the crowds that have nothing better to do. I have seen fat, old, skinny people compete in curling and it upsets me that they think they are athletes. Can any curler out there run a marathon, swim 10k, bike 180k, kick-box for 30 minutes? Losers! I would love to become a curler and eat a slice of pizza like Woody Harrelson did on the movie King Pin. ahahhaahaha. They showed the world that bowling is not a sport, no matter what anyone says. Curling is a joke people. real athletes s..t on curlers.
This sport is so stupid.
Weirdest sport ever
Litrally teh dumbest sport! They should rename it to "stupid"
Not at all, it is very tactical and the sweeping motion is very tiresome.
Litrally teh worst speeler in teh warld!
No... golf.
judging by your spelling and typing you might be an expert on dumb
Lomo just like your birth certificate
Come on, this isn't anything more than shuffleboard on ice and is just as dull to watch. Leave this kind of stuff to janitors and retired people at local parks rather than pretending this is an Olympic sport.
Typical hipster 101
HOW CAN A PERSON WATCH SUCH RUBBISH , I HAVE SEEN BETTER DOMINO GAMES
You don't understand it, therefore it must be bad. Such a narrow view of the world you have.
they literally ran out of ideas for sports...this is fucking ridiculous
This is one of the oldest sports known to man...
Stupidest sport around...what's next...picking boogers?
Dumb Game
The stupidest "sport" ever!!!!! Lol
Gay!!!
joao anfkor, thank u cz these guys arnt athletes.....worst sport ever
You are wasting valuable materials on this useless sport
Define a useful sport...