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OLYMPICS

Former ASU trainer looks back on his time in the ’88 Games

Troy Young is a Sun Devil sports legend, and bonded in particular with one basketball superstar during the Seoul Olympics

Looking back on his own Olympics experience, Troy Young knew something was up following the 1988 Summer Games.

An avid watcher of these past Olympic Games in Italy that saw U.S. teams claim 33 medals, second only to Norway’s 41, Young, the retired athletic trainer at Arizona State University, enjoyed a memorable run himself during the Summer Games in Seoul.

Young was the athletic trainer for Team USA’s men’s basketball team that summer; a team among the favorites to win the tournament yet settled for the bronze medal in what remains tied for the lowest Olympic finish by an American team for men’s basketball.

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