(This story appears in today’s edition of USA TODAY .) A decade removed from her experience as an Olympian, UFC women’s bantamweight contender Sara McMann has a perspective on the Games that most people can’t comprehend from the safety of their living rooms. That’s not to say her experience was a bad one — she won a silver medal in freestyle wrestling in the Summer Olympics in Athens in 2004.
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Why the Olympics paved Sara McMann’s road to a UFC 170 title opportunity – MMA Junkie