FACEBOOK ME!

After the men's gymnastics qualification Saturday afternoon (Olympic time), we asked the Team USA athletes to let us sneak a peek at their Facebook status updates. Here's what we gathered.

Raj Bhavsar is "Mission Accomplished."
Joey Hagerty is "done with Day One."
Kai Wen Tan "just joined Facebook yesterday and is still figuring it out."
Alexander Artemev "is happy, but not too excited yet. Check back after team finals."

Then we decided to poke around a bit more. Forget the team all-around. We wanted to know who's winning the team's Facebook popularity race.

Joey Hagerty's fan club has 13 members.
Justin Spring's fan club has 139 members.
Jonathan Horton's fan club has 157 members.
Raj Bhavsar has two fan clubs, with 183 members total; plus a 324-member group called "People OUTRAGED that Raj Bhavsar did not make the 2008 Olympic team." (Perhaps they should take this one down now.)
Alexander Artemev and Kai Wen Tan do not have fan sites. So come on, snap to it.

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