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• Ice hockey is a team sport played on ice in which two teams of skaters use sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points.

• In some countries such as Canada, the United States, and some European countries such as Latvia and Sweden, it is often known simply as "hockey“.

• The name "ice hockey" is more used in countries where "hockey" generally refers to field hockey or both sports are almost as popular (such as South America, Asia, Africa, Australasia, and some European countries like Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom).

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• Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice towards a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles.

• It is related to bowls, boules and shuffleboard.

• Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called rocks, across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a circular target marked on the ice.

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• Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.

• The sport has common background with association football, ice hockey and field hockey. Like football, the game is normally played in halves of 45 minutes each (however, in the World Championships the halves can be 30 minutes each), there are eleven players on each team, and the bandy field is about the same size as a football pitch.

• It is played on ice like ice hockey, but like field hockey, players use bowed sticks and a small ball.

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• A luge  is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face up) and feet-first. Steering is done by flexing the sled's runners with the calf of each leg or exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat.

• Racing sleds weigh 21–25 kilograms (46–55 lb) for singles and 25–30 kilograms (55–66 lb) for doubles.

• Luge is also the name of an Olympic sport. Lugers can reach speeds of 140 km per hour (87 mph). Manuel Pfizer of Austria, reached a top speed of 154 km per hour (95.69 mph) on the track in Whistler, Canada prior to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

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