High hopes
China Daily | Updated: 2017-08-02 07:53
Amiable American puts army life on hold for world-title push
When he was cleaning up his father's barn as a teenager, Sam Kendricks daydreamed about how cool it would be to travel the world and compete in the pole vault at the Olympics.
A decade later, the globe-trotting Mississippi native still calls himself "a small-town boy who loves to have big adventures".
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