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The Olympics are what people dream of, and that wasn't my dream, I wanted to be a hairstylist and go to cosmetology school.

— Gwen Torrence

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I just knew then that was something special.

I don't mention it at all. I let them come to me, I let them get to know me and to see that I'm still a regular person. I just so happened to have been in the Olympics.

Me, with my background, this little Black girl from the projects, in this stadium, on this platform, this 'Star-Spangled Banner' is being played just for me. All those emotions, it's just so overwhelming. You did something that all these thousands of people came here to do, but you did it.

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