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Alexei Ramirez receives Olympic medal from Jose Contreras

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The prize presentation -- shortstop Alexi Ramirez and his family moved here five years ago. The Olympic gold medal he won -- for Cuba in 2004 was lost. Had been found with -- desist from the one Cuban player the -- Sox World Series team he may have seen their. Jose Contreras Ramirez was presented with the IOC approved replace -- metal. -- just hear -- pursuit like team chairman Jerry Reinsdorf. It was -- I can hardly imagine them. What it meant to but I you know I know this is something that was really on his mind that he was he really was down over this thing having been stolen lost or whatever happened to us. You you could tell by his immediate reaction. How much it meant to. I think it just symbolizes the home to him in in the good way you know. Sunday drained about -- going Q that's that's pretty much the biggest thing they can do down there baseball wise this place for their country play in the Olympics so. It's like you guys lose a World Series ring here. You know something similar like that. You know for him he grew up finalizing Omar Linares and I think that's. More correlation that.

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  1. Jose Contreras0:17
  2. World Series0:15, 1:00
  3. Jerry Reinsdorf0:25
  4. Omar Linares1:07
  5. Olympics0:58
  6. Cuba0:09
Sat, 9 Jun 2012|

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