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Star setter was 'nervous' knowing US Olympic volleyball fate was 'out of my hands'
As the big day approached, Lauren Carlini tried her darnedest to adopt an optimistic mindset. That wasn’t easy to accomplish, considering that just three years earlier she had endured the biggest disappointment of her volleyball career when she was left …