Olympian Battles Olympic Bureaucracy
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As the Summer Games draw near, Gregory Ruckman is fighting with the relentless tenacity of an Olympic athlete and the keen intellect of a Harvard graduate. But the two-time Olympic rower won’t be going for the gold in Beijing this year. Instead, he’s locked in a long-running battle with America’s Olympic bureaucracy over a system that he says reeks of favoritism and allows coaches to deny competitors a fair shot at making the Olympic team.
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