Inside Wauwatosa’s newest coffee shop, you’ll find plenty of people passing the time and enjoying their favorite cup of joe. It’s also where you’ll find Dave Tamburrino, a two-time Olympian who has traded his speed skates for coffee beans.
Tamburrino owns Idyll Coffee Roasters with his family, marking a significant career change for the former speed skater who competed in the 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics.
Watch here: How one former Olympian is bringing his pedigree from one of sport’s biggest stages to a new coffee shop in Wauwatosa.
From Olympic ice to coffee beans: Former speed skater opens Wauwatosa coffee shop
“I moved to Milwaukee in 1990 to go to Marquette University as a freshman. So I was balancing the rigors of training full-time for the Olympics, which was coming up in 1992,” Tamburrino said…