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By Amy Van Deusen, About.com Guide to Gymnastics

1996 Women's Team to be Inducted into the Hall of Fame

Tuesday April 15, 2008
1996 Olympic Team BLOG
The 1996 Olympic women's team with David Robinson and
Shaquille O'Neal
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Congrats to the 1996 women's Olympic team -- they've been chosen for induction into the US Olympic Hall of Fame. The team, dubbed the Magnificent 7, was the first (and so far only), American women's team to win Olympic gold.

Incredibly popular in 1996, the Mag 7 gymnasts (Shannon Miller, Amanda Borden, Amy Chow, Jaycie Phelps, Kerri Strug, Dominique Dawes and Dominique Moceanu) were pictured on the Wheaties box and had their own book published, The Magnificent Seven: The Authorized Story of American Gold.

The ceremony will take place June 19 in Chicago.

More on the 1996 Olympic Team:
Routines from the 1996 Olympics
Dominique Moceanu becomes a mom

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