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March 2023
Read On
World Women’s
Curling Championship
2023
SPORT The teams that play on ice
will meet in Sweden this month.
By Siobhan Bruns
1 SANDVIKEN, a city around
190 kilometres north of Stockholm,
will host the 2023 World
Women’s Curling Championship
from March 18 to 26. The last
time Sweden hosted the curling
championship was in 2004,
when men’s and women’s
competitions were
held together before
splitting
in 2005.
The World
Men’s Curling
Championship
will
take place next
month in Canada,
from April 1 to 9.
2 The World Curling Championships
are organised by the World
Curling Federation. The yearly
contest sees curling champions
from around the globe battling
– or should that be sweeping – it
out, to crown one national team
the best in the world. There is also
a mixed doubles championship,
as well as a world championship
for wheelchair curling.
| Photo: Getty Images
3 Curling is like lawn bowls, but
played on ice. For the game, two
teams play against each other.
Each team has four players. The
players take turns sliding stones
made of granite across the ice
towards something called the
house. The house has a centre
circle with three more circles
around it. The player who gets
their stone closest to the centre
circle wins the point.
4 Blocking and knocking out
the other team’s stones are important
strategies of the sport, as
is curling the stone – which is how
the sport got its name.
The April issue is out on March 28.
5 A player can curl a stone – give
it a curved path – by throwing it in
a way that makes it slowly rotate
as it slides. The movement of the
stone can then be further helped
by sweepers: two teammates who
use brooms or brushes to sweep
the ice in front of the stone as it
moves towards the house. Doing
this can cut down on friction,
which helps the stone move further.
6 According to the Britannica
website, the sport of curling dates
to the early 16th century in Scotland.
It was also played in the
Low Countries around that time,
as can be seen in paintings by Pieter
Brueghel the Elder and Pieter
Brueghel the Younger. But it was
Scotland that promoted the game
worldwide.
7 In 1838, the Grand Caledonian
Curling Club was organised
in Edinburgh to give the sport an
international body. The International
Curling Federation was
founded in Perth in 1966 and became
the World Curling Federation
in 1990.
Answers to the crossword
on page 4
Across: 1 boating, 3 pub,
9 picnic, 11 shamrock,
13 regatta, 14 green
Down: 2 theatre, 4 banquet,
5 race, 6 Irish, 7 parade,
8 dancing, 10 horse, 12 ball
• Solution: SHENANIGANS
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Cartoon interpretation: www.sprachzeitungen.de
Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s painting “Winter Landscape with a
Bird Trap” from around 1626. People can be seen curling in the lower
left-hand corner of the picture. | Image: Wikimedia Commons
0 – 1 CHAMPIONSHIP Meisterschaft — to host ausrichten — competition
Wettkampf — to split h.: getrennt werden — to take place stattfinden
2 – 3 federation Verband — contest Wettkampf — to battle it out (coll) gegeneinander
antreten — to sweep wischen — to crown (fig) krönen — mixed
doubles ... ... im gemischten Doppel — wheelchair Rollstuhl — lawn bowls
Rasenbowling — to take turns sich abwechseln — to slide (s.th.) (etw.) gleiten
(lassen) — centre circle Mittelkreis
4 – 5 to knock s.th. out etw. wegschlagen — to give s.th. a curved path etw.
auf eine gebogene Bahn bringen — to rotate sich drehen — movement Bewegung
— sweeper Wischer(in)— teammate Mitspieler(in) — broom Besen —
to cut down on friction die Reibung verringern
6 – 7 according to laut — to date to stammen aus — the Low Countries (historisch)
die Niederlande — Pieter Brueghel the Elder Pieter Brueghel der Ältere
(Maler der Niederländischen Renaissance, gest. 1569) — Pieter Brueghel
the Younger Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere (1564 – 1638, brabantischer Maler
der Spätrenaissance) — to promote s.th. worldwide etw. weltweit bekannt
machen — Caledonian schottisch — body Verband — to found gründen
| Cartoon: CartoonStock.com