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2 gold medalists to be on Wheaties box

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — First the gold, then the Wheaties.

At the Olympics in Beijing this month, Nastia Liukin followed in the footsteps of Mary Lou Retton and Carly Patterson, the two other American gynmasts who have won Olympic gold in the all-around competition. Now she and American decathlete Bryan Clay follow them onto the Wheaties cereal box. They will get their own special edition Wheaties boxes, General Mills Inc. announced Thursday.

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