That One Time I Tried Curling in Albany… Yeah, It’s Not As Easy As It Looks

Curling for Gold

After a huge semifinal win over defending gold-medalists Italy, Team USA is heading to the gold-medal match against Sweden today on Peacock.

Watching all this Olympic curling success brought me back to 2018, when, during the Winter Games in PyeongChang, Chrissy and I decided to see what all the hype was about by heading to the Albany Curling Club to try it ourselves.

“But it Looks So Easy!”

You know the line everyone says during the Olympics: “That’s a sport I could totally do.” Yeah… about that.

Curling looks simple on TV. Slide a stone, sweep a little, yell “HARD!” and boom — Olympic glory. In reality? It’s a lot harder than it looks…

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