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Meet The U.S. Olympic Flag Bearer You've Probably Never Heard Of

Eddy Alvarez, who plays baseball for the U.S. team, could become just the sixth person ever to medal in both the Winter and Summer Olympics. He took home a silver medal in Sochi for speed skating.
Eddy Alvarez , shown here during a game last month, will be one of the U.S. flag bearers in the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics.

TOKYO — What do speed skating and baseball have in common?

U.S. Olympian and flag bearer Eddy Alvarez. He won a silver medal in speed skating at the Winter Games in Sochi in 2014, and is competing on the U.S. baseball team at the Tokyo Summer Olympics.

Otherwise, not much, as Alvarez joked in a : "I would say the only link is the

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