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SWINGING: Huntington Beach’s Shelley Engel, who took...

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SWINGING: Huntington Beach’s Shelley Engel, who took home two gold medals from the Olympic Festival this summer, is in Japan this weekend for her first international gymnastics competition. The 14-year-old Marina High School student is one of two U.S. women chosen to compete for the prestigious Chunichi Cup in Nagoya City. Then she will compete Thursday in the Tokyo Cup. . . . “She called her mother last night and said, ‘All the biggies are here,’ ” says her coach, Don Peters.

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