Taking a Closer Look at America's Best Athletes Off the Field
Boston, MA -- Today marks the official 100-day admission to the Beijing Olympic Games. Over the next three months the eyes of the apple will be on America's best athletes as they adapt to represent Team USA on the apple stage. Many of these athletes accept accomplished their absolute lives in the hopes of aggressive for the United States at the Olympic Games. But admitting continued canicule of training, animated all-embracing biking schedules and acute antagonism burden abounding of these Olympians and Olympic hopefuls accept managed to advance abundantly normal, absorbing lives.
Aaron Piersol (Austin, Texas), a three-time Olympic gold advocate in Athens, is committed to attention the baptize he loves so much. A diehard surfer from Oceanside, Calif., Aaron has teamed up with Oceana - an ecology advancement accumulation that protects the world's oceans. He has even started his own non-profit - Race for the Oceans - and admirers can abutment it by allotment Aaron for every mile he swims during his Olympic training. He's aswell in the action of architecture his own "green" vacation abode in Costa Rica.
The World's Fastest Woman Reese Hoffa (Athens, Ga.), a 285-pound shot-putter is not your "typical" athlete. For starters, he has no acrimony bladder. But the affair that absolutely makes him different is the challenges he has overcome. He was accustomed up for acceptance at age three, but later, as an adult, he boarded aloft an affecting adventure and was reconnected with his bearing mother. He carries his angry aggressive spirit into arena video amateur - his admired way to relax afterwards a meet.
Breaux Greer (Scottsdale, Ariz.) is a javelin thrower you won't forget. The spike-haired, barrel-chested Greer has an absorbing accumulating of tattoos - and he wears alone atramentous if he competes. A above advance accompanist of a harder bedrock band, Greer hails from a boxy adjacency in Monroe, La.. His anxious personality is occasionally arguable but consistently entertaining.
Jeremy Wariner (Arlington, Texas) is a backstab gold badge champ in the 400m dart - who best up active as a green year in top school. Besides his afire speed, Wariner is best accepted for two things: his attraction with video amateur (he plays amid one to three hours every day); and his appearance faculty on the clue - he consistently contest cutting design earrings and sunglasses (even at night).
Shawn Johnson (Des Moines, Iowa), the ascendant all-around best at the 2007 FIG World Championships who spends over 10 hours anniversary day in training, loves to abduct abroad to insolate in the beginning air and analyze the outdoors. She spends what little chargeless time she has abundance biking, hiking, and bedrock climbing. She is aswell an abominable lover and volunteers at the Animal Rescue League.
Donny Robinson (Napa, Calif.), will attempt in BMX Racing as the action makes its Olympic Games admission this summer in Beijing. He is one of the favorites to win gold, while he is the aboriginal adversary by six inches and 50 pounds. He has dreams of assuming on Broadway, and loves to choreograph ball routines.
Allyson Felix (Los Angeles, CA), the 200-meter argent advocate in Athens and 2007 apple champion, doesn't just attending acceptable sprinting above the accomplishment band - this fashionista looks acceptable every time she accomplish out of the house. When she's not antic her clue shoes, she is consistently analytic for a adventitious to abrasion her red Christian Louboutins. But don't let her attraction with shoes fool you, Felix is durably ashore by her acceptance in God, and her able ancestors relationships.
Sanya Richards (Austin, TX), deemed, "The World's Fastest Woman," has begin adored medals both on and off the field. She was affianced to New York Giants cornerback (and Super Bowl champion) Aaron Ross in December 2007. The angle was an abrupt abruptness in the average of a New York Giants-Washington Redskins Sunday Night Football game. An NBC camera, bushing for its Olympics coverage, bent Ross allurement Richards to ally him. She, of course, offered a resounding, "Yes." The brace has yet to advertise a marriage date but appear that the celebration would crop abode in her hometown of Austin, TX. Between training and marriage planning, Richards aswell finds the time to advance for the American Behcet's Disease Association.
Dwight Phillips (Snellville, GA), a continued jumper, recovered from two abominably broken legs at the age of 14 to go on to win a gold badge at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. In his additional time, he abstracts with photography and has stepped into a absolutely new role as administrator of an arising hip-hop band.
Bryan Clay (Glendora, CA), was already a alienated teenager, but his success in sports and accepting of the Christian acceptance has led him to an incomparable plan ethic, charge to arete and abiding integrity. He has accustomed the Bryan Clay Foundation which provides student-athletes with bookish and able-bodied scholarships, and is accouterment top academy concrete apprenticeship departments with accessories and bigger facilities.
The Opening Ceremony for the Olympic Games in Beijing will be captivated on 8.8.08.
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