UNC's Shalane Flanagan qualifies for 5,000 final

Posted Aug 20, 2008

Shalane Flanagan wants the folks back home in Chapel Hill to know she can't wait to get back and celebrate her Olympic triumph with them and see a few North Carolina Tar Heels football games. First, the North Carolina graduate and Pittsboro resident will go for her second medal of the 2008 Beiijng Olympics in the women's 5,000-meter run at the Bird's Nest on Friday. (Greensboro News & Record)

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