curling is a sport that is played on ice. Two teams of four players each slide eight stones along the ice to a colored circle called the house). The object of the game is to place a stone closest to the center of the house. started curling very young, Canadian Olympic curler Sammy McCann told us. "My father managed a hotel with 10 an ice rink. As soon as the people left the ice, my friends and I would get right on and start curling