JFIFC    $ &%# #"(-90(*6+"#2D26;=@@@&0FKE>J9?@=C  =)#)==================================================HK" }!1AQa"q2#BR$3br %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz w!1AQaq"2B #3Rbr $4%&'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz ?e#mpA){o'lםk:WM#ƣdssI؃ XV0B '׵zPn/``U0n1^gQQb@PjyHB\ʴGַ4ԸX|#npY7d֦Nm겸y#!Հ5%K((f?u"\քL;H02:xIL+'jjw2drQB.$BYv 7glMY1޴u"UQY2d6>^̡zm$ 殝7"[mB]./CBFN:P2^ַE6ykYP0zc=*#qhKQ0~d"1ZnAGi'pS88(QHG"+KCϋ|>TJ^I#݅`] nLdqMT,Qk빊9&ѹˌX-(Ӯf՚UIw>#; 1ۧE" 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 facility in the former East Germany.&nbsp; His