Memories from a Friend – By Luis Soubie

It is difficult for me to write about Santiago Lange without mixing personal feeling in with the journalist’s work.

Everyone knows his official biography:
• 3 time Snipe World Champion (1985, 1993, 1995)
• Two silver medals at the Pan Am Games (1983 and 1987)
• Tornado World Champion (2004)
• 2 Olympic bronze medals in the Tornado (Athens 2004, Beijing 2008)

And now at Rio 2016, Gold in the Nacra17!

He would tell you that his biggest achievement, the one that makes him the proudest, was winning the Argentinian Optimist Nationals in 1976, because that was the beginning of thinking that “everything is possible.”

But since everybody knows most of this already, I’ll tell you several things that few people know.

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