Immigrant Athletes Are Big Part of US Olympic Team in Rio

It's not hard to tell from the list of the more than 550 athletes representing the United States at the Rio Olympics that some of them, or their parents, might have gotten their start in life in another country. In fact, nearly 50 of the athletes were born outside the U.S. The range of nations is wide: Sudan, Kenya, China, Albania, Montenegro and Cuba, to name just a few. Heavyweight freestyle wrestler Tervel Dlagnev, one of the U.S. team's immigrant athletes, told VOA...

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