Athletes face a whole new challenge when their competitive careers end along with their youth.Very few Olympic athletes can make a profession out of their notoriety-or indeed desire to.Once their games end,they must adjust,finding a new career in the non-athletic world.Some have gone on to be medical doctors;others establish themselves in business.For gymnast Kerri Strug,it was a civil service career that called.Ms.Strug,a protege of coaches Bela and Marta Karolyi,who helped Team USA win a team gold medal at the 1996 summer games by her brave performance in the face of injury,went on to graduate from Stanford University.Today she is a program manager at the U.S. Department of Justice,Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention,in Washington,D.C.
Ms.Strug is engaged to another civil servant,attorney Robert Fischer,a congressional staffer.They are to be married in April.
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