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The Latest: Another shirtless athlete enters Olympic parade

BEIJING (AP) — It has become an Olympic tradition: the shirtless athlete in the opening ceremony. And Tonga’s Pita Taufatofua now has some company. Meet Nathan Crumpton. Born in Kenya, resident of Utah, graduate of Princeton, skeleton athlete formerly with the U.S. and now competing for American Samoa — and he grabbed attention Friday night at the Beijing Games, by walking in shirtless.

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