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Top U.S. Team Is Seeded Seventh

By MIKE BRESNAHAN

Dain Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana learned Saturday they were ninth-seeded in the Sydney Olympics and and will open up against No. 16 Oliver Oetke and Andreas Scheuerpflug of Germany.

The other U.S. team, Kevin Wong and Rob Heidger, was seeded No. 7. They play No. 18 Jody Holden and Conrad Leinemann of Canada.

Jose Loiola and Emanuel Rego, who play for Brazil and live in Southern California, were seeded No. 2 and will play No. 23 Matthew Grinlaubs and Joshua Slack of Australia.

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Julien Prosser and Lee Zahner of Australia, who finished fourth in the qualifying standings, were seeded No. 1 because they are the top team for the host country.

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Mike Bresnahan

Mike Bresnahan previously covered the Lakers for the Los Angeles Times. He started the beat in 2004, a month after Shaquille O’Neal was traded, and covered several seasons of mediocrity before the Lakers won back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010. Now they’re back to mediocrity. Bresnahan is from Los Angeles, started with The Times after graduating the University of Wisconsin in 1994, and has also covered the L.A. Kings, pro beach volleyball and numerous colleges and high schools. He left The Times in 2016.

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