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A year after winning gold in Rio, Monica Puig still relives special moment

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WASHINGTON — Monica Puig became the first Puerto Rican athlete to win gold in any sport at the Olympics last summer. Her breakthrough performance came as she took down No. 2 Angelique Kerber of Germany in the final.

“Part of me wants to move on and focus on the bigger things that I have in front of me and what I want to tackle next, but another part of me just wants to relive that moment,” the San Juan native said recently at the Citi Open.