Puerto Rico’s Olympic Team: How Important Is It?
Puerto Rico’s basketball team has lost to Lithuania in the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament, disqualifying it from Olympic consideration this year.
Puerto Rico has fielded an Olympic team since 1948, when, according to the Wall Street Journal, “the International Olympic Committee was in the market for members” following the upheaval of World War II. Puerto Rico is one of thirteen “entities” with Olympic teams. The practice of allowing “entities” to field teams ended in 1996 — the Disctrict of Columbia will never have a team. However, Puerto Rico (along with Guam and eleven others) were grandfathered in.Read More »Puerto Rico’s Olympic Team: How Important Is It?