After qualifying for the team, Mr. Delpopolo said, he had gone to a victory party — where he ate pot brownies. If his impoverished beginnings in the former Yugoslavia define him, an episode in Mr. Delpopolo’s more recent past has marked him. At 27, Mr. Delpopolo is now an Olympic athlete in Rio de Janeiro for his second Games as part of the United States judo team. PhotoGLENVILLE, N.Y. — Seven years ago, Nick Delpopolo took a family trip back to Montenegro, the country where he was born. “I could have been him and he could have been me,” Mr. Delpopolo said recently at his training center near Schenectady, N.Y. “And he didn’t like me.

Source: New York Times August 07, 2016 16:41 UTC