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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
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July 28, 2008

Meet Team Usa

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

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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.

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