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Duke Olympians Return With Medals

 Duke Olympians Abby Johnston and Nick McCrory
Leoneda Inge

A crowd gathered at Raleigh-Durham International Airport last night to greet members of the Duke University family returning with medals from the London Olympics.

Leoneda Inge:  Duke University is celebrating a bronze, a silver, and a gold medal from the Olympics.  Abby Johnston showed off her silver medal in synchronized diving.  She says the experience was better than she could have ever imagined.

Abby Johnston:  You know as a little kid, you think, you watch the Olympics and you think, I’m going to go there one day.  And I’m going to have this fairy tale performance.  And then I actually executed that and it was just un-believable.

Nick McCrory won a bronze medal in synchronized diving – but isn’t committing just yet to Rio in 2016.

Nick McCrory:  I’m still, still on cloud nine, but definitely. I have a lot of high goals for the future, and we’ll see where everything goes.

And Duke men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski brought home a second gold medal – leading Team U-S-A. “Coach K” says the experience was great – but this would be his last year coaching an Olympic men’s basketball team.

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
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