Random cocaine trivia: why was Pablo’s brother Roberto called “El Osito”

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“the Bear”

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The finish in Medellín is hellish. Rivers of mud flow like it’s the end of the world; torrential rain falls from a sky that seems to be emptying its guts. What was a road is now nothing but a track, and what was a track is nothing but black silt. And there they come, one by one, the riders, the poor wretches, chewing on earth, on rainwater, on saliva and tears. One of the first to arrive is entirely covered in mud: neither skin, nor jersey, nor face can be made out. The announcer screams “the rider that just arrived is unrecognisable, he’s completely brown, like an osito” – that is, like a teddy bear. And the name Osito stuck, forever.

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you're a mean D&D gamemaster.

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