Abstract
Some of the nation's top amateurs and professionals will be in Colorado Springs for the next ten days for the Fifth National Sports Festival, a pre-Olympic event with medical overtones. The festival ends July 3. The amateurs on hand are some of the world-class American athletes who hope to be chosen for the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and in Los Angeles. The professionals are physicians with at least five years of varsity-level sports medicine experience with college or high school athletes. They hope to be selected as US team physicians for the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and in Seoul, South Korea. According to Kenneth S. (Casey) Clarke, PhD, director of the sports medicine division of the US Olympic Committee (USOC), the National Sports Festival and the similarly staged World University Games to be held July 1-12 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, constitute the "second leg" of physician
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