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Michael Phelps caps Olympic career with gold
Leave it to Michael Phelps to embody a difficult bit of hip-hop self-help advice: Stay in your own lane.
It's a thorny concept about believing in yourself, in your own plan, in your own timing. It's an idea that a hip-hop head like Phelps can embrace – you know best. Maybe it's what he and his hero Lil Wayne tweet about, when Weezy isn't singing Phelps' praises.
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Read more »Missy Franklin, Olympics' all-American sweetheart?
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It seems like certain athletes emerge from every Olympics as stars. Many Olympians bring home a gold, but an even more select bunch capture the public imagination in some ineffable way. It’s early to say yet, but the excitement about swimmer Missy Franklin’s performance — and her “just a normal kid” bio — suggest she could be an All-American sweetheart of the London 2012 games.
Of course,...
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