Slide over, Jamaican bobsledders. A group of expats from the ice-free island are hoping to bring a whole new winter sport to their tropical homeland: curling. Know more:
SLIDE over, Jamaican bobsledders. A group of expats from the ice-free island are hoping to bring a whole new winter sport to their tropical homeland: curling.
Born on Scottish lochs and most popular among Scandinavians, Scots and Canadians, curling is riding a post-Olympic boost from TV viewers who quadrennially fall in love with the quirky sport with the sweeping and shouting and chess-like strategy. Lately, that’s brought the sport to some new—and non-white—nations.
Curling Jamaica technical director Cristiene Hall-Teravainen, who moved to Toronto when she was 6, said that after taking up curling in Canada she saw exactly one other person of color in competitions: a Russian. Crazy, except for one thing: The Caribbean island where ice usually goes in drinks sent a bobsled team to the Olympics in 1988, a fish-out-of-water story chronicled in the 1993 Disney movie “Cool Runnings.”
Three of the women have competitive experience; Hall-Teravainen is the most accomplished of them, having once competed in Canada’s senior provincial championships. She figures to be the anchor of a Jamaican team that is hoping to compete in the World Mixed Championships in Aberdeen, Scotland, in October.
“Because it was never there in their old country, they don’t seek it out. They’ll seek out soccer and cricket and what have you, but curling is not on the radar,” he said. “So this will hopefully put it more on the radar.”“There are Jamaicans in every country on the planet. I’m quite sure out there in the Jamaican diaspora are curlers like myself—and better than myself,” Walker said. “This is the first step to let them know that we’re out here, and we want to hear from you.
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