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school seeking athletic perfection and often studying to become my an Kaaa Lime i hair arrival Halm thai can train and late part in the  track and held Competition Beu in Early Lunner each they have been coming to the University for 20 since he Days of olympic Champion Harold the Hammer who rained in Malm in the late it was while insuring Al Halm that Connolly did much of courtship by phone with czechoslovak an discus thrower Oka Wischmann the two met at the olympics in Melbourne in ism and married a year there have been Nuny other at Malm Over the Yean among them discus throw Champion Jay sprinter Houston Mctear last and distance including Norm Mars ibo Champion of dozen Yean a current Middle Olla acc record Jan trains at the facility several months each american pole vaulter Robert Pullard who has won Al several meets in Europe this Yew has been there for More than a one of  i the olympic la Tameler Kurbes Llue beae career got a big boat Al wisc Tunmann leans Back in his chair behind a desk inundated with papers and nig heavy lidded eyes brighten when he recalls he was in the army Over Here in the Early 1960s and one night 1 wet Here in the office and he knocked at my he was in uniform and he said can i train Here i Laid of course there is a coach in the gym a in about a unites he was Back and he said not what i bad in i warn to win in the Tokyo so i said sit what Are you doing 110meter hurdles huh and your time i think he said then you must have special i went to nil general and he agreed to tend Davenport to me every of Lemon for in a year his time was Down to so i went to his general again and said you must Send him to America to the army Champion be is very he went and Davenport had bad Luck in he slipped in a qualifying heat and washed wisc Nam it sure he would have been capable of winning a Gold medal Davenport went to four winning the Gold medal in Mexico City and the Bronze in he ran one of his last races Al Mainz in the summer o he waa oae of bed american to Cone Pratt a Schmau he trained acre the most come for two or Lane he Tou me last summer i think Tome of Ike Best Lomei my life were Wlton Manni background made him a natural for in the Early ibis be trained and competed in the Man faceted decathlon and by ism was rated fourth in Germany in the pole and before the War he coached the German team against Austria and the country in which he was during the War he was on Field marshal Erwin rom mels Tuff in North Africa and before the nazi Genera fell from favor in Wischmann was in charge of a group whose Job we to determine by radio fixes the location and direction of movement of while in North Africa be was wounded and sent to recuperate in but he fought again in France and look part in the Battle of the Bulg for an athlete and coach it la perhaps filling that he was taken prisoner in the sports stadium at Wuppertal after toe War he coached soccer in Small towns near bad Kreuz Tach in Exchange for food for his then in 1mb he was encouraged to set up the sports Institute at moire today it is second in Alze Only to the University sports Page 14 the stars and stripes High school in Oal from All u 10 k iad in each olympics there 1 German athletes competing from Mainz Are ranked Miller for the last two Yean Michae Surat whom Wischmann Calls the Best to the world currently in and Guido Bat there arc enter Ling West Oer May and the Sarf West German olympic Federal Lati at Utah on after six be did not coach the German team in be coached the team i told our federation that we had to do this and Tho and that or we would go downhill at they  do what i thought was necessary so i  i wanted More training programs and i wanted our athletes to Start at earlier look in Germany i dont know if you have the same problem in America we have what we Call fun they know nothing about training but they want  and decide what to nothing the secret in we know what they Are doing in Tolje Der we know what  s the soviet Union and to the 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