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Pro Runner Visits Fridley School, Tells of Falling, Rising to Win Race

Olympic hopeful Heather Kampf visited Stevenson Elementary.

Kids at heard a classic story of falling and getting up from professional runner Heather Kampf, who hopes to compete in track and field for Team USA at the London Olympics this summer.

She took a tumble but still finished first in a 600-meter race at the University of Minnesota in 2008 that's become famous thanks to YouTube. (See video.)

Kampf talked about her visit to Stevenson recently with WCCO-TV. Last month, with Team USA Minnesota who visited as part of a program organized with

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Kampf also relived her famous fall-and-get-back-up race in great detail with Youth Runner magazine this month. (See YouTube interview.)


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