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Although Innsbruck has a well-deserved reputation as a winter sports mecca, it was dangerously low on snow and ice in the weeks leading up the 1964 Games. So the organizers called in the troops.

Ethan Trex
























Curling at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

The sport of curling has been around for centuries, but it's only gotten its due at the Olympics over the past three decades.

Rudie Obias