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’68 Olympians return to Echo Summit

July 30, 2014 Joy Barney, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, U.S. Forest Service

On June 27, 11 members of the 1968 U.S. Olympic men’s track and field team returned to the Eldorado National Forest to commemorate the site that helped catapult them to 24 medals — including 12 gold — in the Summer Games that year. Nearly 46 years ago, Echo Summit, on the forest 10 miles west of...

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