Let's just pretend that Alison Dunlap wasn't cut from the 1987 Colorado College women's soccer team. Where might collegiate soccer have led her? "Right about now I'd be finishing up a Ph.D. in biology and making about 10 grand a year" as a graduate researcher, Dunlap says with a half-laugh.
Of course, she was the last player cut. But in a sequel that should give heart to anyone ever chosen last for a schoolyard hoop game, Dunlap finds herself one of the favorites to win the gold medal in cross-country mountain biking in Sydney.
Currently atop the World Cup mountain-biking standings,...
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