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Edwards remains world's most decorated player
Teresa Edwards is the world's most decorated Olympic basketball player ever -- male or female -- with three gold medals and one bronze to her credit in four trips to the Games. She began playing in the Olympics in 1984, But after the 1996 games, she had decided to to retire her well-traveled red-white-and blue uniform. "In 1996 I could not imagine myself being at this level of play in 2000," Edwards says. "So I seriously thought this would be it. Surely you would not be able to play at that level four more years, but here I go." Later this summer, at age 36, she'll become a five-time Olympian, a distinction held by just 16 U.S. athletes. Although the U.S. team is rated the favorite -- it has won 29 of its past 31 games - -this will be no cakewalk. Russia and Cuba will challenge for medals. The gap between the U.S. and the rest of the world is closing. "We're gonna have to get to a point where we're really starting to intimidate people again," Edwards says. "Because right now we're not intimidating to the effect that we used to be as far as other countries go. And hopefully that has been a great wake-up call for us." Team USA's first test in international competition will come August 22 versus Team Canada in San Antonio, Texas.
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