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Vol. 4, No 37
The Voice of North Grenville
September 14, 2016
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by David Shanahan Last May, the World Curling Federation [WCF] held a series of tests at the North Grenville Curling Club premises in Kemptville, using the expertise and facilities of the National Research Council Canada, to investigate various issues involving the range of brooms that were being used in competitions around the world. Claims had been made that various fabrics and inserts used in the construction and use of certain brooms were giving an unfair advantage to competitors beyond the limits allowed by the WCF. The choice of the NG Curling Club for these tests was a compliment to the high standard of the Club’s facilities, as well as to the professional expertise of the
National Research Council of Canada, and the three-days of testing drew curlers of the highest rank to Kemptville to take part in the investigation. The National Research Council [NRC] have recently issued their report on the tests conducted last May, and the WCF has received their report at its Annual General Assembly (AGA) in Stockholm, Sweden, on September 10. The NRC report on the “Performance Testing of Curling Brooms for the World Curling Federation” was prepared by Dr. Christa M. Homenick and Dr. Louis Poirier of the NRC, and concluded that “directional sweeping behaviours can be observed for a range of brooms that were commercially available during the 2015-16
curling season. Specifically, stones were observed to curl excessively to the point of stones being swept off the sheet prior to arriving to the hog line. Athletes were capable of preventing a stone from curling”. The wide range of possible combinations of fabrics, broom head size and type of foam, insert or foil used was covered in the tests and the NRC report, and the findings have been accepted by the fifty-four member Associations of the WCF. They have approved the WCF’s proposed resolutions for sweeping and brushes in elite curling at the AGA in Stockholm. It was also announced that brushes will now be made from a single fabric, which is from a single source – these will have
one standard composition, weave, coating and colour; the approved brushes must be made widely available for purchase and the new standardised brushes will first be used at World Mixed Curling Championship 2016 in Kazan, Russia next month. WCF President, Kate Caithness, said: “I’m pleased that we have reached, what I believe are, clear and lasting solutions to the challenges we have faced with brushes and sweeping over the past 12 months”. These new rules, developed following the tests conducted at the NG Curling Club, apply worldwide to all WCF events. The sweeping motion can be in any direction (it need not cover the entire width of continued on page 2
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