Orange County Register

US distance runner Kara Goucher got a really, really up close and personal look at the USA basketball team.

She’s been writing a column in the Duluth News Tribune about her Olympic experiences. One of those columns ended up as fodder for Deadspin, the irreverent sports website.

She wrote:

“Then we had a two-hour wait until we actually marched in. At this point, athletes started mingling and I met [USA men's basketball players] Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Jason Kidd. I got my picture with all of them. They were all very nice and asked me about running track. One of them actually ended up asking for my number, and chatting me up for a while, and got out his camera to take a picture with me, but that’s a story for another time.”

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