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Russian curling – with cars!

Russian curling - with cars

Curling is probably one of the most unusual sports. It is a team sport, similar to bowling. bowling, with the difference that it is played on ice and with heavy polished stones. Well, in Russia they play it a little differently - with cars!

Curling or bowling on ice, as it is also called, is Olympic discipline (that's how we all know him). But because the residents of the fourth largest Russian city Yekaterinburg apparently they don't have skittles (stones), have found the next best thing – cars.

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They recently organized at all the first tournament of its kind (this kind of 'tournaments' on icy roads do not count). They are ahead of the car removed the engines – for safety and weight reasons. And if you think it is expensive sport compared to the stones used by professional players, this is far from the case. Namely, they are 20-kilogram rounded stones from Scottish granite (Skotske sport also comes out) and a set of them can make you even more than five thousand euros, while the 'cripes' cost you only a few tens or at most a few hundred euros.

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