SIOUX FALLS — Korey Dropkin can remember his 10-year-old self watching the 2006 Winter Olympics on television when Pete Fenson's team, with John Shuster playing lead, claimed a bronze medal in Italy.

It was a singular moment in which Dropkin's Olympic dreams began.

Since then, Dropkin has landed on the world stage in a number of settings, but the Olympic stage in men's team curling has been evasive.

The 30-year-old skip hopes that will change, and it starts Tuesday when he leads one of four men's teams vying to represent Team USA at Milano Cortina 2026 onto the ice for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Curling at the Denny Sanford Premier Center.

"If I were to tell that 10-year-old Korey that you're going to have that opportunity to compete to go to the Olympics and to be competing in t

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