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Curling will be a medal event for the first time ever at the Nagano Games. The sport developed from a 16th-century Scottish game played by sliding rocks across frozen rivers and ponds.

Question: Each team is made up of four people. One person slides a stone down the ice, and two of the remaining members smooth the ice in front of the moving stone with vigorous broom strokes. What exactly is the goal of the sport of curling?

  1. To slide your stones the farthest down the ice
  2. To sweep the ice as much as possible with your brooms
  3. To get your stones as close as possible to the center of a round target
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