The Norwegian Who Won Gold for Brazil: Top Photos

Lucas Braathen quit Norway at 23, came back for Brazil, and samba'd his way to Olympic gold.

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Medal winners of the combined race at the 2019 World Junior Alping Skiing Championships. From left to right: Atle Lie McGrath (NOR), Tobias Hedström (SWE), Lucas Braathen (NOR)
Braathen (right) on the junior podium with fellow Norwegian Atle Lie McGrath and Sweden's Tobias Hedström in 2019 — back when he was just another promising Norwegian racer, not yet Brazil's Winter Olympic hero. © Vintererbest, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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