American Becomes South Korean Citizen to Play on Olympic Ice Hockey Team

Via a reader tip comes this article about another free agent signing by South Korea for the upcoming Olympic Games.  At least he earned his spot on the team and did not have it handed to him like the North Korean female ice hockey players:

In 2013-14, without much to lose, he signed with Anyang Halla, a team based about 12 miles south of Seoul, South Korea. He was driven to his apartment directly from the airport but couldn’t sleep because of jet lag. So he walked around the city and took it all in — the skyscrapers, the frantic bustling on the streets, the colorful billboards, all in a language he did not recognize. “What did I sign up for?” he wondered.

Five years later, Testwuide’s hockey career has been revived. He has rediscovered his passion for the game. He’s playing some of the best hockey of his life. In fact, Testwuide is getting ready to play on the world’s biggest stage, as an Olympian — and with a South Korean flag stitched to his jersey.

The tale of how a kid from Colorado became a South Korean citizen — with no connections or roots to the country — is quite remarkable. That Testwuide is preparing to be an Olympian is unfathomable, even to him.   [ESPN]

You can read the rest at the link, but it is unclear from the article if he still has US citizenship or not.  If he has dual citizenship then he gets the benefits of both playing in the Olympics and still being an American.