2012 Olympics - Kellogg's

 Kellogg's Frosted Flakes back panel featuring 8 US Olympian cards. The cards use the theme "From Great Starts Come Great Things". The card backs tell how each of these athletes got their start. The cards measure about 2.25 x 2.75 inches..

The Juan Agudelo - USMNT - the back of the card  gives Agudelo's start as "Soccer was all I grew up around. Everyone in Colombia had so much passion for it and it was all I would do after school for five or six hours. I came to the United States when I was eight and started getting serious about soccer at eleven."

It is a shame the US Men's National Team did not qualify for the 2012 Olympics. I understand the choice of Agudelo as an up and coming talent, but there are so many others from the women's team who are going and from the men's team who have participated in past olympics...

The athletes featured are Dwight Phillips - track & field, Summer Sanders - swimming, Jordyn Wieber - gumnastics, Kerri Walsh -volleyball, Michael Landers - table tennis, Rebecca Soni - swimming and Casey Tibbs - Paralympic track...

2012 Topps Olympians

2012 Topps Olympics Team & Hopefuls

2012.05.02 - Topps has released a series of cards honoring US brightest Olympians and hopefuls, with a 100 card base set. The base set includes US Women's Soccer team members Hope Solo (card# 50), Kelly O'Hara (card# 61) Carli Lloyd (card# 83) Alex Morgan (card# 90) and Abby Wambach (card#93).

The base set utilizes a stylized photo on a backdrop of the American flag. The set includes variations featuring gold, silver or bronze foil. The Alex Morgan shows a bronze foil variation, the Hope Solo card shown is a silver foil variety.

The set includes autograph cards, uniform relics and patch cards. An example of the Juan Aguelo autograph card is shown. The men's team did not qualify for the 2012 Olympics, and Agudelo is the only men's team member in the set. The autograph cards have the autograph on a sticker that is added to the card, placed within a thin white frame. Other autographs in the set include Hope Solo, Alex Morgan and Abby Wambach...

Relic cards to be updated when scans are available...