'At the table, it doesn’t matter where you're from,' arm wrestler Tomás Silva says. 'You could be the most richest person in the world, or you might have a few bucks to eat every day. At the table, it doesn’t matter.' (OnlyAGameNPR)
Growing up, Tomás attended a private French school in Osorno, a small conservative town in the South of Chile. Like most of his classmates, he swam and played tennis and golf. But to him, these sports were missing something.
"This is probably the biggest challenge in Chile. It goes beyond arm wrestling, it goes beyond sports."Tomás never considered arm wrestling a serious sport — just kind of a hobby. But when he spent a year studying abroad at a Colorado high school, he brought that same hobby with him. Tomás doesn’t use much slang - he speaks slower and is more pronounced. So he stood out easily, especially that day to one of the regulars at the competition.
His arms were so sore, he says he didn’t sleep for three days. But while he was lying in bed, he couldn’t help but think about what he was going to do next.If he wanted to get better, he needed people to train with. So he reached out to some guys he met at the competition. "I said, 'If you're not going to allow me to have this - I love it so much - I am going to have to move out and find a spot where I can do it.'"Eventually, his siblings came around.
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