Becky Hammon is chasing her Olympic dream. Hammon a WNBA star from South Dakota will be playing basketball for Russia in the Beijing Olympics 2008. She has now her Russian citizenship.
31-year-old Becky Hammon, who wasn't among those in the original American player selection says that she just wants to play in the Olympics and that she had no chance of making to the Olympics for USA. So when the Russian opportuity from CSKA Moscow club came, she just jumped for it.
"If you play in this country, live in this country, and you grow up in the heartland and you put on a Russian uniform, you are not a patriotic person," declared US women's basketball coach Anne Donovan.
"The jersey that I wear has never made me who I was," Hammon told ESPN.com. "It has nothing to do with what's written on my heart. Will I be playing for Russia? Yes. But I'm absolutely 100 percent still an American."
Becky Hammon is chasing her Olympic dream. Hammon a WNBA star from South Dakota will be playing basketball for Russia in the Beijing Olympics 2008. She has now her Russian citizenship.
