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Radwanska Selected as Olympics Flag Bearer for Poland
By Erik Gudris
Photo Credit: Clive Rose/Getty Images
(July 8, 2012) -- After reaching her first ever Wimbledon final,
Agnieszka Radwanska
has earned yet another honor in her sports career -- she was just announced as Poland's flagbearer for the upcoming Summer Games in London.
Radwanska will be the first Polish woman ever to carry the flag in an Olympic games and her sister Urzsula will join her as they compete in both singles and doubles in the Olympic tennis event.
Other tennis players recently announced as flagbearers include
Horia Tecau
of Romania and Stephanie Vogt of Lichtenstein. They along with Radwanska join
Novak Djokovic
(Serbia),
Rafael Nadal
(Spain),
Max Mirnyi
(Belarus) and
Maria Sharapova
(Russia) as the other tennis players selected by their countries to lead their teams during the opening ceremony on July 27th.
Wimbledon champion
Roger Federer
is on the very short list of candidates to be selected as flag bearer for Switzerland but he has yet to decide if will accept the honor if chosen. Federer was Switzerland's flag bearer at two other Summer Games.
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