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Wrestler Asnage Castelly Hopes To Win Olympic Medal for Haiti

Wrestler Asnage Castelly Hopes To Win Olympic Medal for Haiti

Here is a picture of Wrestler Asnage Castelly who wants to Win the First Olympic Medal for Haiti.

Haiti made its first appearance at the Olympic Games in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. Its first Olympic medal came in 1924 when Haiti's seven-member shooting team took third place in the free rifle competition. Haiti's second and last medal so far came in 1928; Silvio Paul Cator won a silver in long jump. For Asnage Castelly, it was not easy to turn his dream into reality. He is the first Haitian to compete in the World Wrestling Championship. At 37, Castelly is a Division II wrestler at American International in Springfield, Mass., who wrestles in both Freestyle, and Greco-Roman style. While serving in the U.S. military, he passed last few months bouncing between U.S.A and Haiti, coordinating his functions as the head of Haiti's wrestling federation and arranging his participation in the Olympic, the lone participant from Haiti in the Rio Olympic. He worked hard to convince Haitian officials that he is not only an American, he is also a Haitian and he has the ability and potential to represent Haiti in the Olympic Games. When he was a kid, his mum used to get upset with his habit of fighting. Castelly realized he could wrestle when he watched Olympic wrestling on TV. Presently, he is an assistant coach at the Nieves Wrestling Club and also coaches Springfield Technical Community College and he's in training himself.

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