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Article: Du Pont case shows lengths Olympic athletes willing to go to for support.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- January 31, 1996
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PHILADELPHIA _ Now that John E. du Pont is in custody and the details of his long history of bizarre behavior are filtering out, it's easy to ask why world-class wrestlers continued to flock to du Pont's Foxcatcher National Training Center in Newtown Square, Pa.
Perhaps the better question is, isn't it a shame they felt they had to?
I'm sure murdered Olympic wrestling champion Dave Schultz never thought du Pont would go so far over the edge that he would one day shoot him dead, as du Pont is alleged to have done Friday.
Still Schultz, despite witnessing much of the weirdness, coached du Pont's wrestling team and lived on the chemical company heir's ...