Muito orgulho e sem rivalidade: atletas olímpicos brasileiros nascidos na Argentina

Abstract

Throughout history, four athletes born in Argentina have represented Brazil at the Olympic Games. Antônio Salvador Sucar, Sebastián Cuattrin, Fernando Meligeni, and Joaquin Lopez, for different reasons, opted for the green-yellow flag. More than a simple representation, participation in a major sporting event connects to a feeling of identity construction of the subjects. Based on the methodology of Biographical Narratives, essentially qualitative, this article presents the life stories of these four athletes and discusses their relationships with the migratory movement between Brazil and Argentina. Concludes that the choice of Brazilian nationality by the athletes was linked to the process of sports training, to the construction and individual identification of each one, and, for one of them, to the opportunity provided by Rio de Janeiro to be the host country of the Olympic Games in 2016.