Swiss friends vying for Olympic dream as Filipino curlers [Video]

It’s unlikely enough that a Swiss entrepreneur could make a ton of money selling his online sex toy shop and decide his best weight-loss plan was to shoot for the Olympics in a sport, any sport. It’s downright incredible that Alan Frei could then manage to team up with three Swiss curlers — a banker, a bricklayer and an electrician — who, like him, all have Filipino mothers to make a serious run at this dream.

In a revival of the Olympics of the 1980s, à la Eddie the Eagle and the Jamaican bobsled team, the first Philippines men’s curling team has been successful enough to have a chance to qualify for the 2026 Olympics. And, succeed or fail, they’ve already sparked other Filipino curlers in Canada and the United States to follow in their footsteps.