MEET TEAM USA
Brian Cazeneuve
July 28, 2008
America's new set of Olympians, nearly 600 strong, hails from 47 of the 50 states and includes identical twins, soldiers, teenagers, a cancer patient, a 58-year-old CEO and the daughter of a Super Bowl champion
MOST POPULAR
Michael Phelps
has 4,594 friends on Facebook.
ODDS BEATERS
Charlotte Craig,
taekwondo. Doctors removed Craig's dysfunctional left kidney when she was a
year old and told her family she should avoid contact sports. Softball
shortstop Natasha Watley grew up with severe asthma and spent the first two
weeks of her life on a respirator.
MOST PRESIDENTIAL
I
Brittany Hayes,
water polo. The Santa Ana, Calif., native is a descendant of the 19th U.S.
president, Rutherford B. Hayes.
MOST PRESIDENTIAL
II
Jessica Mendoza,
softball. After Beijing the 27-year-old Stanford-educated leftfielder will take
over as president of the Women's Sports Foundation.
SPORTS ROOTS
• Taylor Phinney,
track cycling, son of riders Davis Phinney and Connie Carpenter-Phinney. At the
1984 Games, Davis won bronze in the team time trial and Connie brought home
gold in the road race.