Athletes from Mexico and Puerto Rico have dreams of competing in the Winter Olympics in curling. It’s a dream that appears more and more possible as new and emerging markets begin to embrace the sport, making its base both larger and more diverse.
competition that is part shuffleboard, part light housekeeping played on a sheet of ice.
It’s a dream that appears more and more possible as new and emerging markets begin to embrace the sport, making its base both larger and more diverse.Jose Sepulveda, 53, center, of San Francisco, who aspires to be on the Puerto Rico national curling team, delivers a curling stone during a pick-up game June 10 in Oakland.
“I love to be able to see a multitude of ethnicities, or backgrounds, sexes, everything. It didn’t matter what you were, if you love the sport, you wanted to curl, you just came out.”Kristina Lugo, a volunteer, shouts out commands to students at the San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club. On a recent warm summer evening, Camarena took the ice in Oakland wearing a tri-color Mexican national team jacket, a black COVID-19 facemask and a red-and-white adhesive nametag. A diverse group of a couple dozen curious people — Black, brown, Asian and white — had come to the club to try their hand at curling. These moments, when she has the chance to win over eager new converts, are the ones Camarena lives for.
“Inviting other communities and cultures in, we’re trying to put a face to it. Instead of saying we’re an inclusive sport, we’re trying to show up and actually say it to their faces,” he said. “It’s a great sport to get involved in if you want a chance to represent your country because you’re not competing against thousands of others, like with baseball,” he added. “Even if you come in and you’re not trying to play at an Olympic level, it’s kind of like golf in that anybody can do the simple things.
Six months later she was competing against a U.S. Olympian and shortly after that she won a bronze medal in her first national event.
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