Meet Emilio Garcia: A Family Man From A Border Town Chasing Gold

“He was always that guy that I would look up to in the gym,” Garcia stated about his older brother. “Without him, I would not be where I am at. He pushed me to go that extra mile and always pushed me to train harder.”

“Yeah, obviously it would mean so much to me and would be a huge accomplishment,” stated Garcia on the importance of qualifying to Paris. “But I am not necessarily doing it to be the first male Olympian from Laredo. I just want to make my family proud and show them all the time and hard work we as a family went through was worth it in the end.”