US Olympic swimmer Shanteau has cancer (AP)

[ASFN Admin]

Olympic swimmer Eric Shanteau is heading to Beijing with a devastating diagnosis: He has testicular cancer. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Shanteau said he learned just a week before the Olympic trials in Omaha, Neb., that he had cancer. His doctors cleared him to compete in that meet and he surprisingly made the team in the 200-meter breaststroke, finishing second ahead of...

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