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Missy Franklin to swim at California

MISSY FRANKLIN, who won five gold medals at the London Olympics, signed a national letter of intent to swim at the University of California.

MISSY FRANKLIN, who won five gold medals at the London Olympics, signed a national letter of intent to swim at the University of California.

Franklin, 17, a senior at Regis Jesuit High School in Centennial, Colo., plans to swim collegiately for 2 years and then turn pro before the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Franklin's plan is to earn her college degree and continue training with the Bears as part of their post-graduate ranks, which have included Olympic champions Natalie Coughlin and Dana Vollmer.

Franklin, who won four golds and a bronze in London, joins a Cal team that is the two-time defending NCAA champion. She won five events at last weekend's Minneapolis Grand Prix, her first meet since the Games, and was in New York on Tuesday night to be honored at Glamour magazine's Women of the Year awards.

In other Olympic news:

* Three-time world champion and Olympic silver medalist Chellsie Memmel, 24, announced her retirement from gymnastics. She had attempted another comeback before the London Olympics following a series of injuries, but failed to make it past the qualifier for the U.S. championships.

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