Tejo: Colombia's national sport, tejo, involves steel projectiles, gunpowder and lots of beer. Courtesy ProColombia. Steel discs: Players take turns throwing a heavy steel disk, or puck, at a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 pe… ...

Thanks to enthusiasts like Mariño, the Colombian government decreed tejo Colombia’s official national sport in 2000. After that, it flooded the marks of a mainstream sport: line officials, an ...

Pesäpallo was also a demonstration sport at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, but unlike baseball, has never been a full Olympic sport. Colombia: Tejo. The explosive national sport of ...

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 ...

Tejo: Colombia's national sport, tejo, involves steel projectiles, gunpowder and lots of beer. Courtesy ProColombia Steel discs: Players take turns throwing a heavy steel disk, or puck, at a board ...

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 ...