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An amateur sport. While Canadian bonspiels (tournaments) offer cash prizes, there are no full-time professional curlers. However, some curlers make quite a lot of their income from curling. Some stay-at-home mothers or house-wives can claim curling as their profession. Still, curling survives as a people's sport, returning to the Winter Olympics in 1998 with men's and women's tournaments after not having been on the official Olympic program since 1924 (that year's curling competition, for men only, was confirmed as official by the IOC in 2006). Because accuracy, strategy, skill, and experience are more valuable in curling than traditional sports virtues of speed, stamina, and strength, most competitive curlers are older than their counterparts in other sports. However, there are many young teams who turn heads, and junior curling is quite popular, with national finals being televised nationwide in Canada. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling#An_amateur_sport
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There was an effort to tax the winnings of so called "professional curlers", but since the number of people who end up on the negative side of the financial ledger is exponentially larger than those on the positive side, let alone win $100,000 or more, that most curlers could deduct far more as expenses, and thus lower their taxable income. The net effect on federal revenue from taxation of curling winnings would be a major revenue loss.
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