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EXPLAINER: The meticulous path to ideal Olympic curling ice

The monitors showing the ice system during the men's curling matches, at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Pebbled ice is illuminated before the mixed doubles curling match at the Beijing Winter Olympics Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Sweden's Sara Mcmanus slides her fingers on the ice after throwing a rock during a women's curling match against Canada at the Beijing Winter Olympics Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

An Olympic ice maker holds a pebble head covered with water droplets used for making the curling sheet ice surface during a women's round robin curling match at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

EXPLAINER: The meticulous path to ideal Olympic curling ice