Missy Franklin dedicates Olympic wins to Colorado
CBS/AP) LONDON - Missy Franklin is dedicating all her Olympic races to her home state of Colorado.
The
17-year-old swimmer said Thursday she was affected by the cinema
shootings in the Denver suburb of Aurora, where she attends high school
and trains.
"Every single race I'm going to have that
Colorado incident back on my mind," she said. "It's such a terrible
thing and I'm so shaken by it. They're in my thoughts this entire
process."
Franklin, who lives in Centennial, Colo., said
she and her parents didn't know any of the 12 shooting victims or the
58 others who were injured.
"But Aurora and Colorado in
general is such a close state that when something like that happens
we're all affected by it, no matter who it is," she said, adding that
she had never been to the cinema where the shootings took place. "It's
hitting very close to home."
Franklin and the rest of
the U.S. swimming team was training in France when she first heard about
the shootings through Twitter. Because of the time difference, she had
to wait several hours to find out if any of her friends had attended the
midnight showing of the Batman movie.
One of them did but "thankfully he was not at that theater," she said.
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