{"id":10196,"date":"2026-02-18T00:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/10196\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:44:10","slug":"entre-10-000-et-13-000-euros-pourquoi-les-pierres-de-curling-coutent-elles-si-cher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/10196\/","title":{"rendered":"Entre 10 000 et 13 000 euros : pourquoi les pierres de curling co\u00fbtent-elles si cher\u00a0?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Les JO d’Hiver 2026 de Milan-Cortina battent leur plein. Et, comme \u00e0 chaque \u00e9dition, cet encha\u00eenement de disciplines sur neige et glace permet de se passionner, le temps de deux semaines, pour des sports qui, en r\u00e8gle g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, b\u00e9n\u00e9ficient d’une couverture plus discr\u00e8te.<\/p>\n

Parmi eux, un attire particuli\u00e8rement les foules : le curling. Derri\u00e8re ses airs simples, voire ennuyants, se cache en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 un sport haletant, dramatique, rempli de retournements de situation et de strat\u00e9gie, comme l’ont d\u00e9montr\u00e9 ces derniers jours.<\/p>\n

JO d’hiver: Armand Marchant ne d\u00e9croche pas de m\u00e9daille au slalom et termine \u00e0 la cinqui\u00e8me place<\/a><\/p>\n

Hautement strat\u00e9gique, cette discipline est \u00e9galement extr\u00eamement couteuse, comme le r\u00e9v\u00e8le le m\u00e9dia sportif The Athletic<\/a>. En effet, selon ses calculs, un jeu de 16 pierres, valable pour les comp\u00e9titions officielles, co\u00fbterait entre 10 000 et 13 000 euros.<\/p>\n

Estim\u00e9es \u00e0 pr\u00e8s de 800 euros, ces pierres glissantes justifient leur prix par leur processus de fabrication, tr\u00e8s sp\u00e9cifique.<\/p>\n

Pour les Jeux Olympiques, les pierres utilis\u00e9es sont toutes originaires d’un seul lieu : la petite \u00eele de Ailsa Craig, situ\u00e9e entre l’Irlande et l’\u00c9cosse. Recouverte de granit, suite \u00e0 des \u00e9ruptions volcaniques il y a plusieurs milliers d’ann\u00e9es, l’\u00eele offre du granit toute l’ann\u00e9e \u00e0 la seule entreprise autoris\u00e9e \u00e0 l’exploiter : Kays of Scotland.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0J’ai couru de mani\u00e8re stupide\u00a0\u00bb : grosse d\u00e9ception pour la Belge Hanne Desmet, disqualifi\u00e9e aux JO d’hiver<\/a><\/p>\n

Avec une production limit\u00e9e de 50 pierres par semaine, la petite entreprise produit toutes ses pierres \u00e0 la main, depuis une seule et unique usine, avant de les exporter dans le monde entier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Les JO d’Hiver 2026 de Milan-Cortina battent leur plein. Et, comme \u00e0 chaque \u00e9dition, cet encha\u00eenement de disciplines…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[6869,2821,868,41,6870,6871,12,13,6872,1526,18,6873,17,6874,914,6875,6876,6877,5064,6878,6879,532,6880,1141,6881,6882,177,6883,6884,6885,895,6886,5080,6887,301,6888,6889,6890,1539,6275,6891,6892,6893,6894,406,6895,6896,6897,369,84,6898,4067,910,6899,6900,6901,6902,6903,2861,6904,6905,2656,1255,6906],"class_list":{"0":"post-10196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-teambelgium","9":"tag-vkalut","10":"tag-868","11":"tag-41","12":"tag-athletes","13":"tag-atleten","14":"tag-be","15":"tag-be-fr","16":"tag-belge","17":"tag-belgie","18":"tag-belgique","19":"tag-belgisch","20":"tag-belgium","21":"tag-boic","22":"tag-building","23":"tag-camp","24":"tag-coib","25":"tag-comite","26":"tag-cortina","27":"tag-desmor","28":"tag-entrainement","29":"tag-equipe","30":"tag-games","31":"tag-hiver","32":"tag-inter-federal","33":"tag-interfederal","34":"tag-jeux","35":"tag-kamp","36":"tag-milaan","37":"tag-milaan-cortina","38":"tag-milan","39":"tag-milano","40":"tag-milano-cortina-2026","41":"tag-olympic","42":"tag-olympics","43":"tag-olympique","44":"tag-olympiques","45":"tag-olympische","46":"tag-ploeg","47":"tag-portugal","48":"tag-preparation","49":"tag-rio-maior","50":"tag-riomaior","51":"tag-riomaior2025","52":"tag-road","53":"tag-road-to-milano-cortina","54":"tag-roadtomilanocortina","55":"tag-spelen","56":"tag-sport","57":"tag-sports","58":"tag-sports-dhiver","59":"tag-stage","60":"tag-team","61":"tag-team-belgium","62":"tag-teambuilding","63":"tag-training","64":"tag-trainingkamp","65":"tag-trainings","66":"tag-vincent-kalut","67":"tag-voorbereidingsstage","68":"tag-weareteambelgium","69":"tag-winter","70":"tag-winterspelen","71":"tag-wintersporters"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}