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Olympic competition begins Wednesday with curling. Here’s a breakdown of the sport’s history, rules and strategy.

Discover the basics of Olympic curling — learn about all events (men’s, women’s, and mixed doubles), rules of play, how matches are scored, and how teams win medals at the Winter Games, including Milan Cortina 2026.

Accuracy, precision and teamwork are the pillars of curling. First played in late medieval Scotland, the sport has taken center stage at the Winter Olympics since its debut at the 1924 Winter Games. Great Britain won the inaugural three-team Olympic ...

Curling is often called “chess on ice” for good reason. The Olympic sport blends strategy, physics and teamwork as two teams slide 42-pound granite stones down a 150-foot sheet of ice toward a target called the house — a set of concentric circles ...

Here are the latest results and updated scores for Team USA's men's women's and mixed doubles curling teams at the 2026 Winter Games.