Donovan Carrillo might have been in Beijing, but his image was all over Mexico on Tuesday morning.
There he was smiling as he knelt on the ice in a full-page photo behind the headline ¡Mágico! in the Mexico City daily Reforma. “His Dream Comes True” shouted El Notre, Monterrey’s leading newspaper, alongside a photo of a smiling Carrillo gliding across the ice. “Makes History” said the tabloid Esto below a cover photo of — what else? — a smiling Carrillo, balancing on one skate on the ice at the Winter Olympics.
The Mexican media hasn’t featured that much ice since Disney’s “Frozen” opened in the country nearly a decade ago. But then when you’re a big underdog on a global stage, the whole world cheers for you.
