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Puerto Rican Monica Puig Takes Home Country's First-ever Gold Medal

Puerto Rican tennis player Monica Puig won the first Olympic gold medal for the U.S. territory in any sport Saturday, beating Germany's Angelique Kerber at women's singles Saturday at the Games in Rio de Janeiro. The outcome was an upset; Puig was unseeded, while the second-seeded Kerber won the Australian Open in January and was runner-up at Wimbledon in July. Muslim-American Ibtihaj Muhammad, the first U.S. Olympian to wear a hijab during competition, won a bronze medal in...

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