After his Olympic wrestling dream ended, Oak Park’s Ellis Coleman is in Tokyo to help someone else’s: ‘Of course, it’s difficult. But this is bigger than just me.’

Wrestling, however, had been too big a part of Coleman’s life, too much of a saving grace to leave it forever. He had been introduced to the sport by his mother’s boyfriend, who demanded excellence from Coleman and his brother, and belittled them if they didn’t perform well. He hated it at first.