Jock Scott on the endangered sport of outdoor curling

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There's strong hope this winter that the ice will be right for the Baxter Cup, New Zealand's oldest sporting trophy. The cup is for outdoor curling, yet bonspiels (curling tournaments) are increasingly threatened by climate change. They're no longer even held in the sport's birthplace of Scotland and the last Baxter Cup was held here in 2017.