Javelin thrower Bruce Kennedy missed three Olympics as a Rhodesian citizen in the 1970s and a U.S. citizen in 1980. He doesn't understand Americans' choosing to represent other nations in Beijing.

8/5/08
Bill Dwyre

Bruce Kennedy wishes Becky Hammon would have heard his story before deciding to play for the Russian Olympic basketball team.

He says he holds no ill will toward her, nor toward the Clippers' Chris Kaman, who will play for the German Olympic team.

"On some level, I understand Kaman. He has a connection with a grandparent being German," Kennedy says. "But, with the young woman, who has no such connection, I just don't understand.