Steel projectiles, gunpowder and lots and lots of beer. 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 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — After a perfect release, Patricia Mendivelso watches the metal disk hang in the air and hit its mark — a small explosive. She coolly pumps her fist as the small boom causes the ...

With an adult beverage in one hand and a solid steel disk in the other, I steadied myself and took aim at the little red target, a small explosive about 20 feet away. My friends cheered and chugged as ...

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 ...

Tejo: Colombia's national sport, tejo, involves steel projectiles, gunpowder and lots of beer.

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 ...