The ACT Ice Sports Federation says Australia's performance at the Winter Olympics has boosted local interest in sports such as curling, fuelling demand for a proposed new ice sports centre in Tuggeranong.
After Aussie mixed doubles Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt’s qualification for the Beijing Winter Olympics – Australia’s first-ever participation in Olympic curling – interest in the sport across Australia has grown sky-high. And nowhere more so than in Canberra.