Saturday, July 12, 2008

They represent the U.S. in the Olympics, but they were born in another country

Below is a list of U.S. Olympians who were born in foreign countries. The list runs counter to the idea that immigrants just take away.
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from:
Associated Press Online
July 18, 2008 Friday 7:37 PM GMT

List of some foreign-born Olympians on US teams


Beach Volleyball:

Phil Dalhausser (Switzerland)

Equestrian:

Phillip Dutton (Australia)

Steffen Peters (Germany)

Field Hockey:

Kayla Bashore (South Korea)

Gymnastics:

Nastia Liukin (Russia)

Judo:

Sayaka Matsumoto (Japan)

Kayak:

Heather Corrie (Britain)

Rowing:

Giuseppe Lanzone (Peru)

Susan Francia (Hungary)

Jennifer Goldsack (Britain)

Sailing:

Anna Tunnicliffe (Britain)

Soccer:

Freddy Adu (Ghana)

Benny Feilhaber (Brazil)

Stuart Holden (Britain)

Table Tennis:

Gao Jun (China)

David Zhuang (China)

Chen Wang (China)

Crystal Huang (China)

Tennis:

Liezel Huber (South Africa)

Track and Field:

Magdalena Lewy Boulet, marathon (Poland)

Sanya Richards, 400 (Jamaica)

Bernard Lagat, 1,500, 5,000 (Kenya)

Lopez Lomong, 1,500 (Sudan)

Leo Manzano, 1,500 (Mexico)

Abdi Abdirahman, 10,000 (Somalia)

Kerron Clement, 400 hurdles (Trinidad)

Triathlon:

Matt Reed (New Zealand)

Water Polo:

Tony Azevedo (Brazil)

from Lexis Nexis

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