Curling had its moment at the Olympics and now Paralympics. It sparked a curling bonanza in America
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After weeks of anticipation, Stacy Bishop packed her suitcase, wrangled her 6-year-old son and headed to the airport. Nine hours later she and her family arrived in Italy, ready to watch the Winter Olympics. Their event of choice: curling.
Bishop is the media director of the Potomac Curling Club in Laurel, Md., and she built her entire vacation schedule around watching the curling pros in action on the ice.
"We made some signs that hopefully people will think are funny if they see them on TV," Bishop said the week before she left for Milan.
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