A Puerto Rican Olympian Who’s Also A Texan Shares The Importance Of Her Duality “Identity is not is not fixed. It’s very fluid and flexible,” says Professor Gijsbert Oonk, who focuses on sports and national identity.

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Period	11 Aug 2021

Title	A Puerto Rican Olympian Who’s Also A Texan Shares The Importance Of Her Duality “Identity is not is not fixed. It’s very fluid and flexible,” says Professor Gijsbert Oonk, who focuses on sports and national identity.
Degree of recognition	International
Media name/outlet	Texas Standard
Media type	Radio
Country/Territory	Netherlands
Date	11/08/21
Description	The story of Tae-Kwon-do practitioner Victoria Stambaugh is rich and complicated. She was born in Pasadena, Texas and now lives in The Woodlands. She’s an American through and through, who competed in the Tokyo Olympics for Puerto Rico. Why? Stambaugh says being Puerto Rican is part of who she is. “I still have my family there in Guaynabo and that I see [them] regularly,” she said. “And I’ve lived in Puerto Rico throughout my lifetime, going back and forth from here to Puerto Rico. And unfortunately, my grandma passed away at 60. So I didn’t get to spend a whole lot of time with her throughout my childhood. But her and her sisters, my aunts were very, very close to her. And so I consider them now as my grandmas. And so it’s through my dad’s side of the family that I wanted to represent Puerto Rico.”
URL	https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/a-puerto-rican-olympian-whos-also-a-texan-shares-the-importance-of-her-duality/
Persons	Gijsbert Oonk