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Comment (Marching into Beijing Stadium under the American flag this August will be a kayaker from Poland, table tennis players from China, a triathlete from New Zealand, a world-champion distance runner from Kenya and a gold-medal-winning equestrian from Australia.
Skip to next paragraph MultimediaGraphicForeign Elite Athletes Who Switched to the U.S. Coverage of the 2008 Beijing Games from every angle — the politics, the arts, the culture and the competition.The Rings RSS Feed | AtomGo to the Rings Blog » Olympics 2008Go to Complete Coverage »All newly minted United States citizens.
Foreign-born and trained stars have been contributing to the United States’s Olympic medal count since 2000 in a modest but growing trend that blurs the national boundaries of the competition.
“We call them migrant laborers,” said Kevin B. Wamsley, a co-director of the Canada-based Intern...
