Scotland’s curlers keep eye on Winter Olympics as they seek success at home
Known as the Granite City, the kind of rock from which curling stones are made, Aberdeen is a most appropriate last major staging post on the long road to Vancouver.
The European Curling Championships start next weekend at the city’s Linx Centre. It is a prestigious event in its own right, but inevitably the forthcoming Winter Olympics in the British Columbia city next February will cast a huge shadow over proceedings.
