The Associated Press had a story not long ago about some energetic Bolivians competing at handball.
“A group of Bolivian grandmothers and great-grandmothers have a pretty nontraditional way of easing the aches and pains of old age. These Aymara women get together every Wednesday in the city of El Alto and play handball.
“The ‘awichas,’ as grandmothers are known in the Aymara language, don sports jerseys over their traditional skirts and look forward to meeting and exercising with friends every week. …
“Team handball is an Olympic sport; two teams pass a ball using their hands to throw the ball into the opposite team’s goal.
“The handball team is part of a program where about 10,000 older people are practicing sports and playing Andean music; they also get free medical care.”
See some great great quotes and photos at NBC News, here.
Photo: Juan Karita/AP
In this Feb. 4, 2105 photo, 72-year-old Aurea Murillo prepares to make a pass during a handball match among elderly Aymara indigenous women in El Alto, Bolivia.
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