“For any Olympic athlete, it’s a tremendous honor to be selected as a your country’s flag-bearer – but sometimes being thrust into the national spotlight can have unintended consequences. In the case of Puerto Rican wrestler and Olympic silver medalist Jaime Espinal, it was his status as a Dominican-born immigrant that caused for some unfortunate backlash from a small, but vocal sector of Puerto Rican society.”
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(story by Andrew S. Vargas @ REMEZCLA)
