In issue 159, shortly after the last Winter Olympics, Bow’s Last Word column discussed curling. After many decades of high-level achievement, and a few near misses, the GB men’s team took silver and the women’s team took gold on the last days of the Beijing Games in 2021.
Almost all the curling rinks in the UK are in Scotland and all our elite curlers are Scottish. It seems perhaps surprising, but until 2017 there was no central facility for elite curling and the elite programmes had been spread out across multiple rinks across Scotland. The establishment of a
