Costa Rican Gymnast Incorporates BLM Tribute Into Routine

Luciana Alvarado is using her historic Olympic appearance to promote equality with a tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Luciana Alvarado is using her historic Olympic appearance to promote equality with a tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Alvarado is the first gymnast from Costa Rica to qualify for the Olympics. The 18-year-old ended the country’s first-ever qualifying floor routine in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics gymnastics competition by taking a knee, placing her left hand behind her back and raising her right hand into a fist toward the sky.

She told the podcast GymCastic after performing the routine in practice that she did it to highlight equal rights and treating all with respect.

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