Haiti’s athletes at the Winter Olympics shine a positive light for a troubled nation

Ana Maria Rus

MILAN (AP) — The troubled Caribbean country, Haiti, has fielded two athletes for the Milan Cortina Winter Games , and they will proudly wear Haitian symbols — although one less than intended after intervention by the International Olympic Committee. The skiers will compete in uniforms designed by Italian-Haitian designer Stella Jean that originally featured an image of Toussaint Louverture, the former slave who led a revolution that created the world’s first Black republic in 1804. The IOC

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