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Youssef Selim's Olympic dreams do not include pizza

by Craig Morgan, theSunDevils.com writer

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Youssef Selim was a fearless 5-year-old when he first spotted the diving boards at his swimming club in Cairo, Egypt and thought, "that looks cool."

When he was 7, he dove from seven meters, catching the attention of a coach who grabbed him and said: "Where are your parents?'

"I was like 'why, did I do something wrong?'" Selim said. "He said, 'no, I want to help you' and he told my parents, 'I need your kid on my team right now. No school for him.