[thechat] Curling

[Martin]

On Friday, February 22, 2002, at 02:50  am, Tamara Abbey wrote:

> At 12:00 AM 2/22/2002 +0000, Martin wrote:
>> Yay - we got our first gold since 1984... and it's an
>> all Scottish team!
>>
>> Dull curling stat: there are only 1.5m curlers in the world,
>> and 1.2m of them are Canadian.
>
> There are a few in the U.S., I know because my cousin is one of them
> from
> the Triumph Curling Club (or at least he used to curl there).

Yup. Dull curling stat 2: there are only 4 other countries
with more than 10k curlers - Scotland, US, Japan and
Switzerland.

Cheers
Martin
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