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Eddy Álvarez, baseball player with Cuban roots, goes for a feat in Tokyo 2020

Written in SPORTS the 2021/8/4 · 15:33 hs

Eddy alvarez carried the American flag at the inauguration of the Olympic Games. The Major League Baseball player disputes this discipline in Tokyo 2020, where he intends to achieve one of the greatest Olympic feats.

After six minor league seasons, the infielder made his debut in the Major League Baseball. In August 2020, against the Baltimore Orioles, the son of Cuban immigrants jumped onto the pitch at Oriole Park at Camden Yards to play his first game with the Miami Marlins.

The second baseman of the Florida ninth He was retired three times before being substituted in the seventh inning, yet he completed a new feat in his multifaceted career as a professional athlete. Previously, the 31-year-old athlete participated in the Olympics.

Eddy Álvarez made his debut in the maximum sporting event in Sochi 2014, where he was part of the speed skating team of the North American country. The Miami native won a silver medal after reaching the podium in the short-track 5-meter relay event.

After his first experience in Winter Games and his arrival at Las Mayores, the multidisciplinary competitor faces a new challenge in Tokyo 2020. As one of the leaders of the American baseball team, Eddy tries to write his name in the history of Olympism.

Álvarez will seek to become the sixth athlete of all time to win medals in both Olympic Games (winter and summer), when facing the ball contest, which returned for the Tokyo 2020 edition.

Clara Hughes (road cycling and speed skating), Christa Luding-Rothenburger (track cycling and speed skating), Lauryn Williams (track and field and bobsleigh), Edward Eagan (boxing and bobsleigh) and Jacob Thams (sailing and ski jumping ) did it before.

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