JFIFC    $ &%# #"(-90(*6+"#2D26;=@@@&0FKE>J9?@=C  =)#)==================================================:K" }!1AQa"q2#BR$3br %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz w!1AQaq"2B #3Rbr $4%&'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz ?z_<$6!u^\FXUWc+}kVlH` c5,/hKoy"B[Z6//{kY `oSZ٩gK1oעg趮./c!-4sqX0Ԫa__^VpޞՌj-\^!=.cgvtr'֢0o5xX\*ͦt^FWMXQKSKUpAk읚$,OOW?AӬ[w=WUDsmh$4SjZn"ۙa#\s $\+;]W4-5;}F{VgxʀtN:fm̝yJeҠ_"n&/r")0+بcyL7vȧ7=(_Y:ٳEEh!0II ;i|'JEEYatest modern Olympic athlete.&nbsp; It is apparent that he has always had one goal in mind, to win the Olympics.&nbsp; When asked why he never won the Olympic Trials any of the four years, he simply shrugged, "That wasn't the goal."&nbsp; In addition to the gold medals, each time he won he broke the existing Olympic Record.&nbsp; Oerter won six national championships and set the World Record six times!</P> <P>The Al Oerter story begins back in 1944 when at the age of eight he first discovered weights by repetitiously lifting various objects found in the basement.&nbsp; "I had fun with weights," recalled Oerter.&nbsp; </P> <P>At age twenty, one of Oerter's coaches told him not to lift weights while training for the Melbourne Olympics.&nbsp; But Oerter remarked "I lifted for the fun of it."&nbsp; His first real experience lifting was in a gym where, he recalls, "there was an 'eye of the tiger' atmosphere there and I really felt the energy flow."</P> <P>Later Oerter was invited to visit a training facili