Fencing champ Zagunis to be US Olympic flag bearer

Published Jul. 25, 2012 5:17 p.m. ET

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Two-time Olympic fencing champion Mariel Zagunis will carry the U.S. flag in the opening ceremony of the London Games.

The U.S. Olympic Committee says Zagunis won a vote of the 529-strong team ahead of Friday's ceremony.

Zagunis says she is ''extremely humbled by this incredible privilege.''

She was the first American to win a fencing gold in 100 years at the 2004 Athens Games.

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