Sport in Brazil Brazilian jockey T. J. Pereira aboard. Curling is a growing sport in Brazil; the creation of a national team was inspired by the audience for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. A temporary rink in the Eldorado Shopping Center in São Paulo featured Norwegian curler Linn Githmark and a winter-sports complex is planned, probably in the city of Campos do Jordão. Frescobol is a native Brazilian sport similar to tennis and cricket, played with a wooden racket and soft rubber ball on the beach with no scoring system. It began during the 1960s on Ipanema beach. Biribol is another native
A Winter Book A Winter Book A Winter Book is a collection of twenty short stories by Finnish author Tove Jansson, published by Sort Of Books in 2006. The stories, some of which had not previously been published in English, were selected by Ali Smith, who also wrote the book's introduction and had previously reviewed "The Summer Book" for "The Guardian". Thirteen of them are from Jansson's first book for adults, "Sculptor's Daughter" (1968), and the remaining seven are from four of her other works. Five were included in her 1998 Swedish language collection "Messages" ("Meddelande"), including the title piece, a partially fictionalised