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U.S. Olympic team of 550-plus athletes most of any nation in Rio

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The U.S. Olympic team will send the largest delegation of athletes of any nation to the Summer Olympics — currently 555 qualified for Rio — for the first time since the 2004 Athens Games.

The USOC is planning to officially announce the full team Saturday live on Periscope via @TeamUSA on Twitter from Los Angeles at 3:45 p.m. ET.

Here’s the full list of U.S. Olympic team qualifiers.

Team USA has more significantly more athletes than its biggest medal rival, China (416), and host nation Brazil (462).

In 2012, host Great Britain had 541 athletes in London, while the U.