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Brown Trafton, Taylor spur sluggish American track team

By Luke Cyphers
ESPN The Magazine

Monday, August 18, 2008

BEIJING -- The world champs fizzled. The shot put locks got picked. The jumpers took a great leap backward. For three solid days, the U.S. Olympic track team laid goose eggs all over the Bird's Nest, going without a single gold medal and, in some cases, without a single qualifier for the finals in some of the country's best events. So Monday night, when the squad needed some gold, it turned to the people in the blue collars. Stephanie Brown Trafton, a wild-pig-hunting discus thrower who has a ...

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