US Olympic Silver Medalist Korey Dropkin Talks Curling, Rock League
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Welcome to Bloomberg Surveillance. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me. I've got to do this because it was inflicted upon me as a child. So in the 92-9 region of Boston, if you fancy, there's the Wellesley Country Club, Braeburn, the Weston Golf Club, and they sort of coalesced around a curling hunk of ice called Broomstones. Did you go there as a little kid? Were you part of that whole scene? Absolutely. Broomstones Curling Club was like my second home. My whole family curled. I have an older brother that curled, and I followed in his footsteps. My parents were so involved with the youth curling program there. I was known to be running up and down the stairs, playing pool, throwing so many stones on the ice.
Did you ever stub your toe on that damn stone? I mean, was the stone laying around at home, and you ran over it? No, no, no. Pretty much just grew up sliding down the sheet of ice. Since you're five years old, you were curling. Five years old. I didn't think a five-year-old could curl. I know. Well, they have these smaller stones that weigh like half the size. So they're stones about 44 pounds. They have like these little rocks that they call them that are made for younger curlers, for kids that can't slide a 40-pound stone down the sheet of ice. What changed with this Olympics in terms of a sport that we focus on every four years to, hey, this is for real?
How did Korey Dropkin get involved in curling?
What's the catalyst right now out of that wonderful Olympic coverage? I think it's the energy that you see from the sport, from all the athletes. You know, we love a sport where, you know, the crowd's going wild and cheering big. You know, I think traditionally it used to be known as, you know, a bit of a quiet, you know, more of like a silent please type of sport where, you know, it's all about etiquette and is a sport of etiquette. And, you know, instead of the, you know, the respective, you cheers on made shots and then be silent for the next opponent to throw. We want those cheers to vibrate through the stadium and that's what we saw in Italy. The Italian crowd showing up, our American crowd, every country showing up for their own and the energy that the athletes were giving off.
Alexis Kostoffer is with Corey Dropkin. He has a silver medal in studios with us. That's a hunk of metal. It's around his neck in case you guys can't see. May I feel it? Absolutely. I've never been this close to a, oh my gosh, that's heavy. All right. That's the real deal. And hopefully it'll last because there's stories like they go on three, four, five years and they fall apart. Or they've been falling off the ribbon or something. Silver, by the way, at $86 right now, up $7,000. Oh, there it goes. Perfect. We got that piece in there. Alexis, please. He's going to hang on to his silver. So, I mean, undoubtedly, you know, curling's having its moment. But in what ways? Like, are you seeing and hearing from, like, young people here in the U.S.?
Are they going like, yeah, I want to do that? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think every four years, it's natural that I mean, the world loves watching curling, you know, we just need to be able to give the world what they want to watch more often. And I would want to see, especially in the US curling exposed a little bit more, we need it more on an annual basis.
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