THE next star of Scottish Paralympic curling may not yet have ever played the sport before, according to a top curling official.
British Curling is this weekend hosting of the first international mixed doubles wheelchair curling events since the World Championships last March, in the run up to the Paralympics in 2026.
He said: “It’s a cracking opportunity,” Holl said. “It’s fantastic that for the Paralympics we’ve now got two wheelchair medal events, I think that’s really, really good. Holl said: “Paralympic sport has a much shorter pathway from people taking the sport up to potential international success. “We are on the lookout. We’re looking at other athletes retiring from other sports; we’re on the lookout for potential curlers maybe coming from the forces where they might have suffered injury through their services work; we’re talking to spinal injuries units where people have terrible accidents but actually want to get on with something in life and a sport could actually be something that really inspires them.
Two years later, Butterfield has already represented Scotland at the international level, earning a bronze medal at the world championships in Vancouver last March as part of the Scottish team.But he also said that “it is possible” someone entirely new to the sport of curling – even now – could make it to the Milan Cortina Games in three years’ time.“We have a brilliant venue that we run basically 24/7, so we can get on the ice and give them a go.
Holl said that while the addition of the doubles event presents fresh opportunities, it is “not without its challenges”.
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