Brazilian Olympian Felipe Lima has announced via Instagram that his wife Flávia Danigno is pregnant.
Lima and his wife Flávia married in May 2018 in Brazil and are expecting their first child soon according to Lima’s post.
Felipe Lima has been racing for Brazil for over a decade, having raced at 2 of the last 3 Olympic Games. In 2012 he finished 13th overall in the 100 breaststroke but didn’t race for Brazil at the Rio 2016 Games. In 2021 he returned for the Tokyo Games and placed 12th overall with a 59.80 in the semi-finals after setting a new PB of 59.17 during the heats.
Apart from the Olympics, Lima has collected several major international medals including long course World Championships silver in the 50 breaststroke (2019) and bronze in the 100 breaststroke (2013). He has also won 4 medals at Short Course World Championships: 4×50 mixed medley silver in 2016 and bronze in the 50 and 100 breast in 2016 and 2018, along with 4×50 medley bronze in 2018.
In 2019, Lima shared the news that he officially became a US citizen while training under Sergio Lopez at Pinnacle Racing at Virginia Tech. Lima said at the time he became a US citizen that he would continue racing for Brazilian for the time being, which he did at the Tokyo Games. There, he finished 12th in the 100 breaststroke at 36 years old – a feat of itself.
Lima has raced in all three seasons of the International Swimming League, for the LA Current in 2019 and then Energy Standard in 2020 and 2021. Lima finished in 98th overall during the 2021 season (tied with Paige Madden) with 121 points total to contribute to Energy Standard’s league win.
I would love to find out how he can become a US citizen and yet continue swimming for Brazil.
PS: Congrats on the upcoming birth of a lovely child!
The fact that he’s American doesn’t automatically “void” his Brazilian citizenship.
The same way Milo Cavic was born in California, spent basically his whole life in US soil and represented Serbia. There’s also the Santo Condorelli case of course.
I don’t know the exact theory behind it, but it’s something very common.
Most countries in the world allow double citizenship.. I think Japan is one of the few that does not allow it..
There are quite a few that don’t allow it. Poland, Austria, lots of Asian countries including China and UAE and Thailand and Singapore, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Tanzania.
Ukraine actually just passed a law in December to criminalize it.
Without having researched every country on earth, though, you’re right that it appears more allow it than those that don’t.
Yeah did not do much research and focused on local situation, many immigrants who went for dual citinzeship (mainly italy, germany, spain and portugal). And while brazil is the country with most japanese outside japan there are no dual citinzeship on this case (if you want you have to give up one)
Other countries does not have many immigrants who moved here so..