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London 2012: The Summer Olympics
6:11 pm
Mon May 7, 2012

Soccer Star With Soap Opera Roots Aims At Olympics

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North Korea's Yu Jong Hui (left) and Colombia's Orianica Velasquez battle for the ball during the FIFA Women's World Cup on July 6, 2011, in Bochum, Germany.
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Straight From Bogota: Orianica Velasquez is a junior at Indiana University in Bloomington.
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Orianica Velasquez leads Indiana against Michigan State on Oct. 16, 2011. This summer, she hopes to lead Colombia's national team to an Olympic medal.
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Originally published on Tue May 8, 2012 7:26 am

Indiana University soccer star Orianica Velasquez is on a mission — to get to the London Olympics with Colombia's women's soccer team. And she wants to send a message about the country where she was born.

"My dream is to get a medal for Colombia," she says, adding that she wants to show the world "it's just not violence, it's just not drugs — we can play soccer and we can do great things because we have great people there."

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