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SALT LAKE CITY -- Some of them have never been to Mexico, but their Latin roots and heritage are helping them represent the Aztec flag.
Eleven young teenagers could be part of Mexico's first Winter Youth Olympic team. They have been trained here in Utah at the Olympic Park in Park City by Juan Jose Carlos, a Mexican athlete and director of the Mexican Bobsled and Skeleton Foundation, and Pat Brown, head of bobsled and skeleton at the Utah Olympic Foundation.
In their second time training in Park City, the young athletes improved their times over the skeleton board, said Carlos.
Tania Valdes is one of the Mexican-American teenagers who's about to be trained here in Utah to participate in the Americas Cup. After that, she could go and compete in other racetracks, such as Lake Placid in New York or in Vancouver, Canada.
Later, Valdes could be eligible to be part of the World Junior Championships.
In its first year, the Mexican Bobsled and Skeleton Foundation is also going to prepare three of these young athletes to compete in the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
E-mail: tnavarro@elobservadordeutah.com
