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Table Tennis
Wang Chen
Born: January 17, 1974, in Beijing, China
Current Residence: New York, NY
Ethnicity: Chinese
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 140 lbs.
Event: Women’s singles, women’s team
Did you know? Though Wang didn’t get her passport in time for Athens, she qualified for Beijing based upon her world ranking.
Wang Chen was born and raised in Beijing. She began playing table tennis after being […] -
Synchronized Swimming
Annabelle Orme
Born: March 9, 1987 in New York, NY
Current Residence: Walnut Creek, Calif.
Ethnicity: Hapa Chinese
Height: 5’3”
Event: Team
Did you know? Annabelle does a mean Pikachu voice for her friends and teammates.
Five-time national team member, Annabelle Orme will for the first time represent the U.S. at the Olympics in Beijing. Orme’s Olympic dreams began when she […] -
Swimming
Natalie Coughlin
Born: August 23, 1982, in Emeryville, Calif.
Current Residence: Lafayette, Calif.
Ethnicity: Hapa Filipino
Height: 5′8″
Weight: 130 lbs.
Events: 100m backstroke, 100m freestyle, 200m individual medley, 4×100m freestyle relay, 4×200m freestyle relay, 4×100m medley relay
Did you know? Coughlin is the first woman to finish the 100m backstroke in under 59 seconds.
Natalie Coughlin first began swimming at the local […] -
Softball
Lovieanne Jung
Lovieanne Jung, 28, won a gold medal in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, where she was one of five Americans to start in all nine games. This will be Jung’s second Olympic games. She is also a two-time World Cup Champion and a two-time Pan American Gold medalist.
She attended the University of Arizona […] -
Soccer
NATASHA KAI - SOCCER
Born: May 22, 1983, in Kahuku, Hawai‘i
Current Residence: Kahuku, Hawai‘i
Ethnicity: Hawaiian, Chinese, Filipino, Caucasian
Height: 5′8″
Weight: 143 lbs.
Event: Women’s soccer
Position: Forward
Did you know? Kai has anywhere from 11 to 15 tattoos. Some tattoos are poems, while others are of the hibiscus, Hawai‘i’s state flower.
Hailing from a soccer background in Hawai‘i where football […] -
Shooting
Sandra Fong
Sandra Fong, who goes by the nickname “Sandy,” began shooting at the age of 12. Now 18, the first-time Olympian will be heading to Beijing in the summer and Princeton University as a freshman in the fall. For the Fongs, shooting is a family sport. Her older sister Abigail, who also attends Princeton, competed […] -
Judo
Sayaka Matsumoto
Sayaka Matsumoto was born in Japan and raised in the Bay Area. She began studying judo at the age of 5 under the instruction of her father. Her love for judo drove her to six consecutive national titles and seven championships overall. At17, Matsumoto missed out on the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games when […] -
Gymnastics
Kevin Tan
Born: September 24, 1981 in Fremont, Calif.
Current Residence: Fremont, Calif.
Favorite Event: Rings
Ethnicity: Chinese
Did you know?: Tan hates pizza.
Bio
Kevin Tan, a 27-year-old Bay Area native, began gymnastics in 1988 at the age of seven. Growing up as a hyper active child, Tan used gymnastics as a way to get out of the house and into […]
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