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Bryshon Nellum new Olympic story after 400 breakthrough at 2012 US Olympic Trials

Jun 24, 2012

Bryshon Nellum of USC will compete in his first Olympic Games after overcoming multiple gunshot wounds to the leg in a 2009 shooting. After worrying that he may never be able to walk again, let alone run, Nellum's is a cinderalla story. He has undergone surgery's on his legs once a year since the shooting and he went into the trials as a dark horse pick for the team. In the final he ran 44.80, his first time sub-45, to make the Olympic Team.