Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Meet Mexico’s not-so-Mexican delegation to the Winter Olympics

Three of the four competitors have another nationality and another has not lived in Mexico for 10 years. In any case, they form the largest delegation from Mexico to the Winter Olympics since Salt Lake City 2002, when there were also four athletes.

THE AMERICAN SARAH SCHLEPER
The 38-year-old skier will participate in alpine skiing and is an American by birth, so she competed for that country in Nagano 98, Salt Lake City 2002, Torino 2006 and Vancouver 2010 without winning medals.

Pyeongchang 2018 will be her fifth winter games, although the first for Mexico. In . . .

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