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Speaker 1: The local curling community is getting fired up for the

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Speaker 1: Winter Olympics.

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Speaker 2: It takes a lot of practice, a lot of time

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Speaker 2: out on the ice, a lot of dedication.

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Speaker 1: Head ice technician at Broomstone's Curling Club, Daniel Ostheimer, says

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Speaker 1: he got a sneak peak of the setup over in Italy.

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Speaker 2: Great facility. I'm excited to see the upgrades that happened

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Speaker 2: from the time that I was there in April to

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Speaker 2: the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: And they'll be cheering hard for Corey Dropkin, a south

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Speaker 1: Borough native whose name is all over the US Junior

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Speaker 1: National Championship banners hanging at Broomstone's.

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Speaker 2: Corey is actually ranked pretty high, so I have a

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Speaker 2: very exciting feeling that they're going to end up on

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Speaker 2: the podium. I mean, we all hope for the gold,

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Speaker 2: silver from our teams, but I think he will be

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Speaker 2: in the chase for the playoffs, set for a medal.

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Speaker 1: You can see Corey Dropkin and the Americans gopher gold

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Speaker 1: when the mixed doubles tournament kicks off on February fourth.

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Speaker 1: From Wayland, I'm Jared Brosnan WBZ Boston Snooze Radio