Gunpowder and beer: Playing Colombia's national sport of tejo

Steel projectiles, gunpowder and lots of beer sound like a recipe for disaster. But in fact they are the components needed to play tejo, Colombia's national sport.

(CNN) — 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 originated amongst Colombian indigenous groups around 500 years ago and was declared the Latin American country's sport in 2000 under Law 613. Popular for its boozy nature, some tejo purists are trying to banish the beer and get the sport into the Olympics.