Curling in Canada

Wieting, Stephen G.; Lamoureux, Danny

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“…Curling, which was first played on frozen lakes in Scotland in the 16th century (Wieting and Lamoureux, 2019), has become one of the most watched Olympic sports, especially on TV, as a result of the increasing interest of people (Turriff, 2016). Curling is one of the most popular sports of the Winter Olympic Games, which has been followed with admiration by all fans around the world in recent years, with the inclusion of the Mixed Doubles discipline in the PyeongChang Olympic Games in 2018 (Mouhtaropoulos, 2018).…”

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The Impact of Free Guard Zone Rule Modification on the Game of Curling

AĞDUMAN,

BEDİR

2023

MJSS

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The Free Guard Zone (FGZ) rule, one of the most important elements that has been applied in the sport of curling for the last 30 years, was modified by the World Curling Federation in 2018 to add more excitement to the game. With the modification of the FGZ rule it is expected that the games will be played more competitively. The aim of this research is to examine the changes in various parameters such as the points generated per game, number of blank ends, total ends played, big ends and the extra end situation after the revised FGZ rule. Within the scope of the study elite level international competitions (Olympic Games, World and European Curling Championships) played for 3 years before (844 games) and after (908 games) the FGZ rule in the womens and mens category were evaluated. The data was taken from the Historical Results section of the World Curling Federation web page. Independent Sample t test was run in JASP 0.15.0.0 statistical analysis program. The level of significance was taken as p

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The Impact of Free Guard Zone Rule Modification on the Game of Curling

AĞDUMAN,

BEDİR

2023

MJSS

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“…Imported by early Scottish settlers in the late eighteenth-century, curling has contributed to cultural understandings of Canada and has long been linked to Canadian national identity through settler colonial legacies. 35 Curling has been a popular sport in Canada since the early 1900s and was played long before that across the country, expanding with the western movement of the railroad in the nineteenth century. According to historian Karen Wall, 'from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s prairie people led the country in curling.…”

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“…40 Curling has long been conceptualized, and perhaps romanticized, as a sport centred around the sociability of events that welcome all abilities and ages and tied to rural rinks and rural community recreational and sporting practices. 41 Oral histories of the sport in southern Alberta Japanese communities, speak to this social aspect of the sport. The JC Bonspiel began as social gathering among mostly men, 42 an event that over the years became quite competitive.…”

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‘Hey, Why Don't We Have a Bonspiel?’* Narrating Postwar Japanese Canadian Experiences in Southern Alberta through Oral Histories of Curling

Adams

Aoki

2021

The International Journal of the History of Sport

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Southern Alberta is home to Canada's third largest post-war concentration of Japanese Canadians. Many Japanese Canadians were relocated to this region between 1942 and 1949, and many remained to rebuild their lives and communities during the postwar period. Our study draws on oral histories conducted as part of the Nikkei Memory Capture Project, a multi-year oral history project that initiates the narration and analysis of the cultural and social history of Japanese Canadians from 1950 to the present in southern Alberta, Canada, to interrogate the cultural practice of curling, near ubiquitous and evocative in the memories shared, as a means and representation of Japanese Canadian integration, civic engagement, community building, resiliency and agency. In southern Alberta during the postwar period, curling, as a physical cultural practice, served several purposes: first, curling provided a social space for community renewal through-sometimes Japanese-only-events and gatherings; second, representations and experiences of curling reflect and contribute to the nisei goal of achieving full integration into Canadian culture; and third, it provided space for expressions of resiliency, agency, and escape through camaraderie and physical movements on the ice. KEYWORDSJapanese Canadian; curling; oral histories; postwar; southern Alberta; Canada I've really loved curling and getting together with everybody because it brought old friends together, new friends, and we get to see each other once a year.It was my parents Bob and Toshi Miyanaga that first got me to love curling, because that's all I saw all my life. When I married my husband, he curled for the first time and now all my children curl as well. 1 Hollis (Miyanaga) Pickerell, sansei (third-generation) Japanese Canadian, grew up on a farm near Taber, Alberta, where her family grew sugar beets, potatoes, and corn. Since her teen years, Hollis has been involved in curling through the Taber Curling Club, and for over 20 years she has been the secretary-treasurer for the Taber CONTACT Carly Adams

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“…However, Canada has a long history with the sport of curling. Scottish settlers brought curling to Canada in the 18 th century(Wieting & Lamoureux 2001). Although many different nations play the sport, with the World Curling Federation currently ranking the men's curling programs of 60 countries ("World Ranking" n.d.), its popularity in Canada is unmatched.…”

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“It used to be called an old man’s game”: Masculinity, ageing embodiment and senior curling participation

Allain

Marshall

2019

Int J Ageing Later Life

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The sport of curling, popular among older populations in Canada and conventionally imagined as a sport for older people, offers an important window into what it means to be an older man participating in sport. While researchers have extensively studied expressions of youthful masculinity in sport culture, scholarship about the confluence of gender expression and old age in sport is much rarer. Using Connell and Messerschmidt’s (2005) reconfiguration of hegemonic masculinity, and drawing on 19 interviews with older men who curl in mid-sized Canadian towns, we argue that later-life men negotiate complex models of appropriate masculinity that borrow from hegemonic exemplars available in earlier life, deploying certain forms of intellectual, class and gender privilege to do so. At the same time, they disrupt these hegemonies through an emphasis on interdependence, caring relationships and the acceptance of bodily limitations.

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Curling in Canada

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The Impact of Free Guard Zone Rule Modification on the Game of Curling

The Impact of Free Guard Zone Rule Modification on the Game of Curling

‘Hey, Why Don't We Have a Bonspiel?’* Narrating Postwar Japanese Canadian Experiences in Southern Alberta through Oral Histories of Curling

“It used to be called an old man’s game”: Masculinity, ageing embodiment and senior curling participation

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