The Olympics are underway, and 10 Tar Heels are competing in Tokyo in various events, for various countries. In honor of the games, throughout the whole of the summer leading up to them, we’ll be digging into the history books to profile some Tar Heels of the past who competed at the Olympics.
This year in Tokyo, baseball will be returning to the Olympics after a 12-year absence. South Korea won gold in Beijing in 2008, but three years prior to that both baseball and softball had been voted out of the list of events starting with the 2012 games.