Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.

The United States Olympic Committee will send over 500 representative athletes to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games next summer in Brazil.*

Among all those choices, the U.S.O.C. choose standout open water swimmer Haley Andersen to kick-off its campaign of Team USA gear. For more information, visit here.

* In 2012, USA sent 530 athletes to the London Games (261 men + 269 women) in 25 sports who won 104 medals (46 gold + 29 silver + 29 bronze), one of which was earned by Anderson who swam for nearly 2 hours and was just touched-out by 0.4 seconds for gold by Éva Risztov in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim.

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