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Coach Reflects on Renewed Vision to Make the Olympics

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All eyes turn to Beijing this week and the start of the 2008 Olympics.UW-Madison graduate and three time world freestyle wrestling champ Lee Kemp is coaching the men’s Olympic freestyle wrestling team.Kemp qualified for the Olympics in 1980, only to have the U-S boycott the games.Now, nearly three decades later… he’s finally fulfilling his Olympic dreams….

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