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WWDTM: The First Quarter Century

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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How I Smuggled the Dirt to the Olympics

When I was 14, I saw the 76 Olympic games on television. And I remember going to my coaches andI asked them did they think that I can make the Olympics because that's my dream. My mom didn't know because it was just a little bit of a mound of sand. But you know, I would practice my jumping in. So as long as we all went together and came back together,. Then before my mom got home and we never collected enough sand for me to jump in the pit. "It's like the great escape," she says about sneaking over there holding potato chip bags trying to look non-salan.

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