When athletes walked into the Beijing National Stadium during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games, only 4 percent of the nearly 600-member U.S. delegation was Hispanic, despite the minority group at the time comprising 15 percent of the country’s entire population.
Eight years later and with the Latino population in the U.S. now totaling over 17 percent, there are only 18 Hispanics among the U.S.’s 554 athletes – or about 3 percent – competing in this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. READ MORE AT FOX NEWS LATINO
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