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Scottish Rinks Weathering Storm Author: A desperate curling campaign has succeeded in desperate times. Scottish curling’s grass roots, already struggling with recent facility closures before the COVID-19 pandemic, got a recent boost when the government pledged U.S. $2.7 million in direct support. The windfall could mean the difference between some of the nation’s rinks surviving past the pandemic and into the next 2021-22 curling season. “I was delighted to hear that the work had paid off,” said 2014 Olympic finalist and two-time world men s champion skip David Murdoch. “The last few months have been extremely difficult for all our rinks. They’ve had had incredible pressures of finance, dilemmas of feasibility of opening, and a yo-yo of open or close restrictions.” ....