It sounds like a recipe for disaster. But in fact, they’re the components needed to play the national sport in Colombia: tejo. The game originated amongst Colombian indigenous groups around 500 ...

But when you visit Bogotá, or nearly any community in Colombia, it's not only socially acceptable — it's the national sport. The game is called tejo, and it reaches to the heart of Colombian ...

As sports go, it is rather old, quite boozy and a tad explosive. It involves trying to hurl a disc into a tube surrounded by small bags of gunpowder. Tejo was first made popular by an indigenous ...

Tejo or turmequé, a national sport in Colombia since 2000, has its origins in other game played in the Muisca community, which inhabited the Bogotá savannah 500 years ago, as Spanish journalist Jose ...

Generations of Colombian men have played tejo, the country’s curious national sport, in which competitors, often drunkenly, lob disks at boxes filled with mud, hoping to strike a paper triangle ...

Tejo, a game of accuracy with an explosive twist, has been played in Colombia for about 500 years and been dubbed a "national sport". Now, a domestic software company has turned it into an app ...

It sounds like a recipe for disaster. But in fact, they’re the components needed to play the national sport in Colombia: tejo. The game originated amongst Colombian indigenous groups around 500 ...