Fantastic Olympics journey: > 54-year old Rich Ruohonen is a law firm partner > been top American curler for decades but never made Olympics > barely missed qualifying in 2022 and thought dream was over > a team member for 2026 Olympics got sick and they tapped Rich to be an alternative > before leaving for Milan, he set the automatic email reply for his personal injury practice: “I am out of the office. Playing in the Olympics.” > Rich is more than twice as old as the rest of teammates (mid-20s, same age as Rich’s kids) and coaches > he's practicing, cooking and even paying day-to-day expenses for the team > his teammates call him the Team Dad and promise to get him some ice time (which would make him the oldest American Winter Olympics athlete ever) If not, the WSJ dropped this wild article subtitle "All he needs is for one of his teammates to slip and fall."