Olympic-sized assignment: News reporter takes to the ice to get swept up in ...
Okay. So what the heck is this curling preoccupation - and really, how hard can it be?
That's what I asked as I stepped onto the ice to try the Olympic sport with the funny name.
It seemed all I had to do was slide a stone about the enormousness of a football toward a giant bull's-eye some 120 feet away while teammates sweep the ice in front of it to guide the stone to the objective.
Easy enough, right?
Uh. Not quite.
I hadn't been on ice since I flailed around Wollman Rink a few years back. And as anyone who's seen my scullery knows, I rarely sweep.
Still, none of that dimmed my fantasies of Olympic gold. Until I hit the ice.
You see, curlers wear odd shoes with Teflon soles.
Teflon, I discovered as I crashed to my knees, behaves on ice like butter on a hot skillet.
Aaron Dubberley , my preceptor at New Jersey 's Plainfield Curling Club, led me to a hack, a foot rest on the ice we would push off from to launch our stone toward the quarry - called a "house."
Expos 4's Melissa Holmes personally has the Euro-Pro Shark Steam Mop and is very impressed with it, so if this Multi-Vac is the same quality as the steam mop
