Article: Basketball player Dawn Staley, playing hurt, wants her gold medal no matter what.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

PHILADELPHIA _ If she ignores the pain, she's fine. If she avoids thinking about the inevitable postgame inflammation, the tedious therapy of the next morning, she's able to endure.

If Dawn Staley doesn't think about the gimpy knee and remembers only the goal, everything works out.

Staley, the former University of Virginia standout, has a recently repaired lateral meniscus in her left knee. She's been playing with the USA Basketball women's national Team. She's the 5-6 point guard on the greatest women's team ever assembled _ a group of former collegiate stars who forsook big money in foreign leagues to play together. Staley, who is from Philadelphia, and her ...

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