Luis Grijalva finished second in the men's 5000-meter final at the NCAA track and field championships earlier this summer and did well enough to realize a dream of his and qualify for the Tokyo Olympics with a personal best of 13:13.14. But not for the U.S., but his home country of Guatemala.
Grijalva, a student at Northern Arizona University, came to the U.S. when he was just a one-year-old from Guatemala and has lived here ever since but is not a citizen or legal permanent resident. He's a DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipient, which complicates his Olympic eligibility.