Two others have Mexican heritage but train in the U.S. Remaining in MexicoĪmong the four athletes on the Mexico team, Carrillo is the only one who stayed in Mexico to nurture his talents, which he insists on doing. None have ever medaled at the Winter Games.īrazil - typically a Summer Games powerhouse - claims the most athletes but the 10 Winter competitors in Beijing are a fraction of their 302 that competed in the Tokyo Games last year. There’s another 10 athletes from four other Caribbean teams, including Virgin Islands, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. In Beijing, Carrillo is one of 33 athletes from nine Latin teams: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico. They were always laughing or telling me that it was impossible for a Mexican to qualify.” “For me to have the opportunity to be one of the few Latin American athletes here at the Olympics, it’s really something that motivates me to do my best and to inspire more kids in Latin America and in my country to try to practice winter sports,” Carrillo said. It instantly made Carrillo the most successful Mexican figure skater in history.
That allows him to advance to the longer free skate competition on Thursday - a first for Mexico, which hadn’t had an Olympic skater in three decades.
Carrillo had a career-best performance in the marquee sport of the Winter Games on Tuesday at Capital Indoor Stadium, featuring a well-executed quad toe loop and difficult triple axel.
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