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Tennis Star James Blake's Olympic Journey

 

Published 8/14/2008 at Latest News on omg!

BEIJING, China -- U.S. tennis star James Blake has made light work of his competition through the first three rounds of the 2008 Beijing Olympic games' bracket, and with good reason - he's making up for lost time. The formerly dreadlocked Blake, who now sports a clean-shaven head, missed the Athens games in 2004 after breaking his neck on the court, crashing head first into the steel net pole. "I still say that's the best thing that happened to me," James, 28, told Access Hollywood 's Shaun Robinson. "I got to go home and spend time with my father who was fighting, unfortunately, a losing battle with cancer." (link)

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