
Along with baseball and boxing, wrestling is Cuba's bread and butter when it comes to the Summer Olympics—and no wrestler in the island nation has ever been better than Greco-Roman grappler Mijain Lopez.
Lopez, 41, entered the Paris Olympics with gold medals in four consecutive Olympics. He won gold in the 120-kilogram weight class in Beijing in 2008, gold in the same class in London in 2012, gold in the 130-kilogram class in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, and gold in that class in Tokyo in 2021.