JFIFC    $ &%# #"(-90(*6+"#2D26;=@@@&0FKE>J9?@=C  =)#)==================================================jK" }!1AQa"q2#BR$3br %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz w!1AQaq"2B #3Rbr $4%&'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz ?QZS#5TfLKp u=LIVE4n1@1!8R E7dکۣFx GZ5ۊ-CN38S~USzUIM1"w!Yfn(- VޝysW22޶-^4 ^=#KP,gq7m'M[o(Τ5! <9?ƛW"}Vq?3hxmm-|_[AؼF8U)K%nKʓV+$bVÏOqV8[b Rh/r:p(-s})Mlzа" ]JT)YN>g8S-az3ţXAO ɩ\Xw(XW>NHJ\:⻝w[M:Ęi\a}ީ=W07?9j%W䘓d]ȿ)Tfl޿Ob4J}.$xQ%÷#i qT 0ݪN~v#&nbsp;&nbsp; Al Oerter is considered by many to be the greatest 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 ti