Olympic volleyball player David Smith, who is nearly deaf, excels for US team

When David Smith was growing up in California, the only time his parents sprung for a cable television subscription was to watch all the different Olympic events.

Smith, who is nearly deaf, may have been watching them with closed captioning on, but that never slowed him down when it came to his own Olympic dream.

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