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USA TODAY staff covering Rio Summer Olympics

Sam Amick (NBA reporter). This is his first Olympics. He will focus on men’s and women’s basketball in Rio. He is one of our most prolific and successful reporters on Twitter with 142,000 followers.

Nancy Armour (Columnist). This is her 11th. She will write general columns, but will be spending quite a bit of time at gymnastics. “I was fortunate enough to see Usain Bolt in both the 100- and 200-meter finals in Beijing, and those races will stick with me forever. The dominance with which he won was something in itself to behold, but the utter joy when he crossed the finish line – and before in the 100 meters – was infectious.