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    American Olympians try out Cockney accents (VIDEO)

    Operating like modern day Eliza Doolittles in reverse, American athletes are brushing up on their Cockney accents before the start of the London Olympics. Watch as members of the U.S. sailing team, volleyball team and fencing squads try to duplicate the rhyming slang associated with the East End.

    I don't think she's got it. Or any of them, for that matter.

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