FILE PHOTO: Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Boxing - Men's Middleweight - Last 32 - Kokugikan Arena - Tokyo, Japan - July 26, 2021. Eldric Sella Rodriguez of the Refugee Olympic Team in action against Euri Cedeno Martinez of the Dominican Republic REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan boxer Eldric Sella, who represented the Refugee Olympic Team at the Tokyo Games, said on Tuesday he will move to Uruguay after being unable to return to Trinidad and Tobago, where he had been living.
Sella lasted only 67 seconds in his first Olympic fight, leading him to apologize for his loss and generating a wave of solidarity among Venezuelans who him as an icon of the difficulties suffered under the country's economic crisis.
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