Flag-Wrapped Wrestler Cejudo Values Citizenship Over Gold Medal
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For Henry Cejudo, nothing holds more value than his U.S. citizenship, not even the Olympic gold medal he won for his country two years ago in Beijing.
“For me not to be able to call myself American would be like a death in the family,” said Cejudo, 23, who was born in South Central Los Angeles to illegal Mexican immigrants.