Did you know that all the curling stones used at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics are made in Scotland? The granite is quarried on the tiny uninhabited island of Ailsa Craig and then made in the East ...

For both the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, 132 new curling stones were created and delivered by manufacturers Kays Scotland. And just like the stones used previously at ...

Ailsa Craig, an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland, has provided the unique granite used to make Olympic curling ...

Every single curling stone in the Winter Olympics is crafted from a special granite found only on Ailsa Craig, a small uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland.

Ailsa Craig, an uninhabited island 10 miles off the coast of Scotland, provides the unique granite used to make Olympic curling stones.

Ailsa Craig is an uninhabited isle off the coast of southwest Scotland and the source of the super-dense granite used to make curling stones for the Winter Olympics. It features both “common green” ...

Every curling stone that slides across the ice at the Winter Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo traces its origin back to this windswept island off the west coast of Scotland, a place so protected that ...

Curling takes the world by storm every four years, but many fans don't know much about the stones used.

Curling stone used at the Olympics. The two different granite varieties making up the stone can be distinguished by grain size and color. Ailsa Craig is a small island in the Firth of Clyde, an inlet ...