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Kotaku | by Mike Fahey | Thu, Jun 5

Kotaku is the #1 Blogger for Mario

As it turns out, just about all of the Olympic athletes I profiled started playing video games around the same time they started showing interest in their more physical pursuits. Take Kevin Tan, a champion of the still rings and assistant gymnastics coach for Penn State, who got started ga...

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