The tears streamed down John Orozco‘s face. He was thinking of everything he came back from. He was thinking of his mom.
Orozco came back from a tragic 2015, the loss of his mother and a potentially career-ending injury, to make his second Olympic team on Saturday night.
“After the past year and a half I’ve had, and all the people that doubted me, I finally found the strength within myself,” a crying Orozco told Andrea Joyce on NBC. “My mom was there the whole time. I know she’s looking down on me and she’s so proud.