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Beyond Olympic gold: US kids getting lapped in aerobic fitness

  • Written by Grant Tomkinson, Associate Professor, University of North Dakota

While the U.S. brings home more Olympic gold than any other country, many, if not most, American school kids wouldn’t even bring home a tin, if there were such a low-ranking medal.

Recently, colleagues and I set out to see how the fitness of American kids stacked up relative to other countries. Our findings were surprising. Not only did the...

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