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1,500-meter runners living American dream at games
« on: August 04, 2008, 08:31:32 AM »
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DALIAN, China (AP) - He is too short, too small, too raw, too ... everything to be here. Yet somehow Leo Manzano made his way.

To America. To a better life. To the Olympics.

Born in Mexico and endowed with his American citizenship four years ago, Manzano's is one of three success stories that began years ago in different lands and will come together in the 1,500-meter race at the Beijing Games.

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