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Foreign-born athletes display melting-pot U S at Beijing Olympics
New York AP notes at least 33 foreign-born athletes will wear USA uniforms in Beijing, including four Chinese-born table tennis players a Britain kayaker and seven track and field members led by Bernard Lagat Lopez Lomong and Leo Manzano. The piece voices mixed immigration debate while praising immigrants for strengthening U S Olympic effort.
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New York
USA
U.S
Britain
Nastia Liukin
Kenya
Bernard Lagat
Lopez Lomong
Sudan
Leo Manzano
Bubba Thornton
Jill Geer
USA Track & Field
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Ira Mehlman
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Federation For American Immigration Reform
Mehlman
William Gheen
Americans For Legal Immigration
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Lomong
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