A Valley wrestler, an American dream, a Beijing gold

Posted by Abel Ledezma at 8/20/2008 9:27 AM and is filed under 5. Inmigrantes,1. English

BEIJING --Henry Cejudo was wrapped in the American flag almost as though he had been born in it.

The son of undocumented immigrants from Mexico had achieved his own American dream, overcoming early hardships to become, at 21, the youngest U.S. wrestler to win an Olympic freestyle gold medal.MORE

 

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