ANOTHER SHOT AT GLORY Olympic Veteran Takes His Shot A (Sports‪)‬

Byline: ED MILLER [bar] THE VIRGINIAN-PILOTPHOTOS BY dam Nelson sacrificed for years to arrive at his make-or-break Olympic moment. After graduating from Dartmouth with a bachelor's degree in government , he moved cross-country to train full time in Palo Alto, Calif., which sounds nice until you consider that he lived in a five-bedroom house with nine other athletes. They dubbed it "the stable," and Nelson, a shot putter, paid $200 a month to sleep in a closet beneath a staircase.