(USA Baseball) Eddy Alvarez competes for the USA Baseball team in a qualifying tournament. Alvarez, who competed for Salt Lake City Community College in 2011, has been named a flag bearer for the USA contingent in the opening ceremony in Tokyo as he prepares to compete in his second Olympics. He won a silver medal in short-track speedskating in 2014 and, guaranteed a medal in baseball, will become one of just six athletes in history to win medals in both the Summer and Winter Games.
Julie left the beach of Santa Cruz, Calif., where she worked for 17 years, for the mountains of Salt Lake City in 2019. She has covered the NBA Finals, the Super Bowl, the World Series, the Maverick's big wave surf contest and two Olympics. A Colorado native, she enjoys creating her own adventure, occasionally with her husband and two kids in tow.