Curling: Nude Curling Calendar Creating Stir

CBC Network ^ | 2/16/06 | CBC Network

[llevrok]

Last Updated: Tue Nov 22 17:09:33 EST 2005 CBC Sports

Women's curling will be getting more attention in the coming weeks, but not in a way that many expect.

A new international calendar features nude and scantily clad female curlers.

The idea came from Ana Arce, a photographer who skipped three seasons for the Andorran women but has since moved to Spain.

"I think it's going to change the image of the sport which is not so nice," Arce, who also poses in the calendar, told The Canadian Press. "I've been playing for eight years and there are so many beautiful girls playing and nobody knows it.

"I doubt that anyone is going to be shocked and everybody's going to enjoy that and like it."

Curlers who pose in the Ana Arce Team Sponsorship Calendar 2006 will divide the proceeds.

Arce invited curlers she knew personally over the years, including Canadians Melanie Robillard of Ottawa and Lynsay Ryan of Kelowna, B.C.

Ryan, 21, is also the daughter of two-time world champion skip and 2006 Olympic hopeful Pat Ryan.

Ryan, who attends McMaster University in Hamilton, posed in July in a see-through sarong in the forest of Fussen, Germany.

"I sent him (her father) an e-mail," Ryan said with a laugh. "I thought it might be better if he read about it and had time to think about it before he replied."

Arce said she met Lynsay Ryan at a curling clinic in Germany and was astonished when the Canadian agreed to pose for the calendar.

"I thought she was going to say no because being Canadian I know it's more difficult," said Arce. "I think things are different for European girls.

"We are more open here – a little less shy I think. But she said yes and she just wanted to check the pictures and everything was OK."

The 12 models that participated in the calendar represent curling teams from Denmark, Italy, Spain, England, Poland, Germany and Canada.

"Some of the girls showed a little bit more, like breasts, because they wanted to," Arce said of the black-white photos. "But it is very, very tasteful."

However, curling isn't the only sport that's had women posing in comparable calendars. The Canadian women's rugby, water polo and cross-country ski teams all have posed in similar fashion.

Other well-known Canadian female curlers didn't have a problem with the calendar but wouldn't participate.

"I couldn't, I'm too shy," said Jennifer Jones, the defending Scott Tournament of Hearts champion from Winnipeg. "It's very European.

"If the right people want to do it I think it's kind of a fun idea and innovative and hopefully it will get curling some publicity."

The calendar will cost roughly $25 Cdn.

[llevrok]

besides the stir, a little titter in crowd....

[Lurker]

I like big titters...

L

[Gordongekko909]

A nude calendar? My God! How ground-breaking!

Wait! Stop the presses? What's that over there? It's some water! And preliminary reports tend to show that it is wet!

[llevrok]

I like big titters...

as in a good, hearty, laugh?

[Young Werther]

I have a Pingo Curling Club decal from the Tuktoyaktuk curling club in the Far Northwest Terretories of Canada.

Betcha didn't know that a Pingo is a geological formation..wakka wakka!

[darkwing104]

This ought to be interesting...

[llevrok]

please Ping the usual suspects...

[llevrok]

my sophisticated Canadian stops at the phrase ticketyboo.

[Richard Kimball]

A nude figure skating calendar would outsell it.

[RightOnline]

sigh...........you KNOW the rules...............ahem

[Cannoneer No. 4]

ping

[Gordongekko909]

Somehow I don't doubt that. A nude gymnastics or tennis calendar might do pretty well, too.

[Lurker]

Yea....that's it.

A good hearty laugh.

L

[fanfan]

LOL!

Canada Ping!

Please FReepmail me to get on or off this Canada ping list.

[big'ol_freeper]

Ping

[fanfan]

Here's where you get them......

http://www.thecurlingnews.com/calendar.html

No additional pictures shown there. Sorry boys.

;-)

[Drango]

I never thought curling was a real sport...but if they do the NUDE thing it must be!

[null and void]

Pictures????

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

And they are sold out. I wonder why?

[garyhope]

I don't know, I was already on the edge of my seat with all that hot, sexy curling action as it was. I don't know if I could stand any more curling excitement.

[fanfan]

And they are sold out. I wonder why?

Rush Limbaugh bought every copy.

[Echo Talon]

The Johnson sisters should make a calander,
their looks are much better than their curling skills.

[JRios1968]

I just hope this nude curling calendar includes "athletes" such as the Johnson sisters, rather than other "curlers" I have seen...

[Fintan]

 

Nude curlers? No thanks...

[Echo Talon]

I think Russia has a good looking one as well.

[JRios1968]

We can only hope...of course, I have yet to watch one second of the "Olympics", so I wouldn't know!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I never thought I'd see the day when curling looked sexy!!

[Echo Talon]

I flip the channels around every once in awhile, I couldnt sit and watch a whole curling game, so boring!

[Mr. Brightside]

Canada Ping!

Canada Ping?

Or Canada BOING????

[fanfan]

Canada Ping?



This was a Canadian Curler Cutie ping.

;-)

[Darksheare]

My new favorite sport!

[fanfan]

You must admit, for curlers, they're not bad looking!

No offense intended towards people who use or wear curlers.

[Echo Talon]

who are those nasties?

[Echo Talon]

OHHH YEA....

[fanfan]

LOL!

So,

Curling is pretty cool, eh?

[Echo Talon]

Curling is boring, but Cassie looks pretty good.

[GMMAC]

sweep, sweep, sweep,sweep,sweep, sweep, sweep !!! ... ahhhhh.

(Curling calendar play-by-play)

[Springman]

Read you two were talking about curling.

[Dashing Dasher]

I thought curlers were gay.

;-)

[Don W]

You forgot:

HURRY HARD!

HARDER!!

[NicknamedBob]

I didn't realize curling was so popular among the ladies.

I mean, isn't it a lot like ... Housecleaning?

[maggief]

[Larry Lucido]

I don't know. There's good naked, and there's bad naked. Not sure where naked curling would fall.

[llevrok]

My kinda babe - lets it all hang out !

[Heatseeker]

Arce invited curlers she knew personally over the years, including Canadians Melanie Robillard of Ottawa and Lynsay Ryan of Kelowna, B.C.

So two of the Canadian ladies are to be in this calendar? Thus is born a whole new meaning to the term "double double". ;)

[Squantos]

25 dollars canookistan ......??

What is that in US dollars a buck eighty er something ??:o)

[US admirer]

Let's see... what would be a great name for someone the the creator of a nude curling calendar?

Exactly how do you pronounce the name "Arce" anyway.

[Casloy]

You must admit, for curlers, they're not bad looking!

Why the "for curlers" caveat? I think they are good looking, period.

[US admirer]

Here you go.

[verity]