Social media users have dubbed the sturdy, silver-haired Glaswegian “the Michael Jackson of curling.” That's after official Olympic accounts pushed out videos of the moonwalk-like shuffle he performs while misting the ice between matches at the Milan Cortina Games.

During the 2026 Winter Olympics, interest in curling from fans in the United States has developed from curiosity to full-blown interest amid the mixed doubles team of Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin winning a silver medal on Tuesday and the women's team prevailing over Canada during Friday's round-robin session in Cortina.

Every single curling stone in the Winter Olympics is crafted from a special granite found only on Ailsa Craig, a small uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland.

Of the 10 mixed doubles curling teams competing in that Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, three are married couples, bringing a bit of love to the ice.

With the Winter Olympics in full swing in Milan and the Paralympics starting shortly after, interest in winter sports is at a high. Here in Milwaukee, there’s a strong community of adaptive athletics that has made the fun of ice sports available to everyone.

Meteorologist Christian Bridges got to check out a local curling club, and they explained what makes curling ice different from skating ice

There's a broom to sweep on the ice in curling because, simply put, of science. Once the stone is sent toward the other end of the ice, one of the team members can control its path a bit by sweeping.

Forget pickleball. The trendiest sport in the Valley (at least for the next few weeks) may be the one played with brooms on ice. Why it matters: Every Winter Olympics, curling becomes the "toast of the town" as the world watches men and women sweep away at the ice in a highly strategic — but not super strenuous — competition,