A Shot At Glory Season 1

Every Journey Has a Story. Kate Ziegler swam over 200,000 miles to get there.

Tyson Gay ran over 25,000 miles to get there. Donald Robinson broke more bones than he can remember to get there. For America's hopefuls the trip to Beijing began long before this summer.

Every night for two weeks leading up to the opening ceremonies, MOJO in conjunction with USA TODAY profiles Team USA's medal hopefuls.