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Transcript: 14 SOLDIERS GO TO OLYMPIC TRACK AND FIELD TRIALS
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
- Article date:
- July 11, 2000
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Army News Service, July 11, 2000) -- For the
first
time in the era of the all-volunteer Army, more than a dozen soldiers
are
headed to the Olympic Track and Field Trials, July 14-23, in Sacramento,
Calif.
Pre-VOLAR, many college track stars were drafted, and soldiers
brought
home medals from a variety of Olympic Track and Field events: pole
vault,
shot put, long jump, 200 meters, 4x100 and 4x400 relays. In 1980,
the U.S.
boycotted the summer Olympic Games in the former USSR.
In 2000, the 14 soldiers headed to California are on a rebuilding
mission: to put Army athletes back on the U.S. Olympic Track and Field
team. The soldiers are assigned ...