Both USC and UCLA are richly represented at the Tokyo Olympics, with a combined 103 athletes representing the universities with 32 national teams.
have combined for 106 Olympic competitors with ties to the respective schools, collectively surpassing all but 31 nations’ delegations. Both schools can claim hurdler Rai Benjamin, who spent two years as a Bruin before becoming a Trojan when he transferred to the school across town.
If the Pac-12 were a nation, its delegation would trail only those of the U.S. , Japan , Australia , Germany , China , France , Britain , Canada , Italy , Spain and Russia . “We’ve been battling since we were young, just playing club tournaments and college,” Hannes Daube, an attacker from USC who grew up in Long Beach, said before departing for the Games. “It’s good to be on the same team now.”
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