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.
by Merrit Kennedy
Jul 23, 2021
2 minutes
TOKYO â 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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