Most competitions in the Winter Olympics appear to require superhuman athletic powers. Then there’s the oddball sport of curling, which ignites Olympic hope in viewers like Carl Schaeper. He remembered thinking as he watched the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver from his couch in Houston: How hard could it be to slide a stone on ice and hit a target? Houston may be an unlikely place for a curling scene, but many Canadians work in the oil industry there. A handful of them founded a curling club in 1973.

Source: Wall Street Journal April 20, 2019 10:52 UTC