The president also called the American team to wish them luck before the game, McClellan said.
That was the American team, Columbia HTC, whose sprinter, Englishman Mark Cavendish, won six stages.
Later that night, he ordered the Foreign Ministry to invite the American team to China.
Don't expect either American team to rein it in during the final just because they're from the same country.
The American team also is dealing with the likely loss of its two biggest stars from the Vancouver Games.
"To overcome the crowds and the American team...the satisfaction on Sunday night would be beyond anything I've achieved, " said Davies.
What about the two most popular American team sports, football and baseball?
The winner was just announced this evening and we're thrilled to see that an American team won: Virginia Tech's shape-shifting Lumenhaus.
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No matter their team, Caribbeans had so much to cheer in the championship of a tournament missing the star-studded American team yet again.
And while each of the other new teams have at least one driver confirmed, the American team are still keeping their options open.
The Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project refurbished the American team's sleds for two decades, but since the split, few wrenches have been taken to the fleet.
Later in my career, when I was managing a large, multi-national pricing project, German and American team members were having difficulty working with French colleagues.
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And every day, you succeed together -- as one American team.
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But when the project was done he learned that the Israeli engineers were disgruntled because the American team was producing new products while they maintained old ones.
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Realizing the next chef would need more time to train, the American team sponsored a paid sabbatical for James Kent, then sous chef at Eleven Madison Park.
Rather, the beautiful princess was a symptom of a larger issue: No one on the American team had ever met members of the Japanese group, and vice versa.
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Jakob de Neergaard, president of the Danish team that won the gold medal in 2011, says that many European countries were wary of Bocuse meddling with the American team.
The American team will benefit from City's scouting network and player development, and club Manchester will learn from the Americans' marketing expertise and reap the financial rewards of MLS success.
Finding that same unity will be essential if Alfredsson's charges are to win back the Solheim Cup from a talented American team that is likely to include teen sensation Michelle Wie.
Right-hander Gavin Floyd got the start for Chicago and allowed two hits and a walk in 2 2-3 scoreless innings, and said it was an honor to face the American team.
Li Guilian runs Dayang Trands, a Chinese clothing company that is manufacturing the U.S. Olympic uniforms that the American team will be wearing at the opening ceremony in London on Friday.
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With Spitz watching from the stands, Phelps beat his American team mate Ian Crocker by just four-hundredths of a second to win his fourth individual gold and his seventh medal overall.
Justin Leonard fought back from four down to level with Jose Maria Olazabal and then holed a 45-foot birdie putt and the American team wildly celebrated on the green as though they had won the cup.
Alfredsson remembers only too well just how poorly matched the sides were at Lake Nona in 1990 - she was a young pro thrown in against an American team packed full of players she had grown up watching.
It was therefore with considerable excitement that the conference heard from Takaaki Kajta of Tokyo University, one of the leaders of a 100-strong Japanese and American team that has been experimenting with the Super-Kamiokande detector (as it is known).
The Selecao defeated Chile 4-2 and 3-0 in World Cup qualifying - and Dunga's team eased to a comfortable victory at Ellis Park on Monday as their opponents became the first South American team to be eliminated from the competition.
They believe they are the reason that the fans flock to games and that CBS, NBC, Fox and ESPN pony up billions to broadcast the NFL. The NFL is, of course, the major American team sport that does not guarantee player contracts.
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Yes the American team won eight of the 12 singles matches on the final day to stage the biggest comeback from 10-6 down to win, but the victory was overshadowed by the abuse handed out by the American spectators to Europe's Colin Montgomerie.
He and President George Bush may now find it difficult to obtain trade-promotion authority, formerly known as fast-track, from Congress: this enables the American team to work towards a deal and put it to Congress on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, rather than enabling the legislators on Capitol Hill to unpick it line-by-line.
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