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Jahvid Best aims for Olympic track team

Wondering what former Detroit Lions running back Jahvid Best is up to these days?

He's still training hard -- but not for football.

Best, 27, is trying out for the St. Lucia Olympic track team leading up to the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Best's father is from St. Lucia, located in the Caribbean, but Best still needs to obtain citizenship.

"I visited as a very young child, with my parents, but don’t have much memory, just pictures," Best recently told the St. Lucia News. I most recently visited the island in 2012 during my offseason in the NFL That 2012 summer I ran the beach every morning as part of my workout.