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Permalink Reply by Scott Strumello on August 6, 2008 at 5:37am

I haven't heard of anyone this year. dLife has a page with famous athletes with with diabetes (see here for that page). There were a few contenders, but for various reasons, I'm not sure any will be in Beijing. For example, rower Chris Jarvis from Canada was hoping to be in the Beijing Olympics (he WAS in the Athens Olympics), but I believe he was disqualified this round (I'm not certain why, it could be he now lives in Boston attending college, or maybe it was his age, or maybe he just didn't make it this time around ... I don't know what the rules to qualify for the Canadian Olympic team). Perhaps we'll learn of some this weekend!

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Permalink Reply by Melissa Warren on August 6, 2008 at 7:16am

Thanks, Scott. I forgot about Chris. I met him at an ADA event, and he seemed like a great guy.

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Permalink Reply by Toni Crebbin on August 6, 2008 at 7:30am

Kevin Hansen is a T1 who sets for the US men's volleyball team. Check out http://www.hoinews.com/sports/sports_story.aspx?id=160373

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Permalink Reply by Melissa Warren on August 6, 2008 at 11:06am

Thanks, Toni! I hadn't heard about Kevin. This is a huge help.

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Permalink Reply by Melissa Warren on August 26, 2008 at 10:51am

It was very exciting to see that they won gold!

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