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Track and Field Head Coach David Neville Recounts Going for Gold

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STATESBORO – The 2024 Summer Olympic Games kicked off today in Paris, France and GSEagles.com caught up with its own Olympic gold medalist, head Track and Field and Cross Country coach, David Neville, to recount his 2008 Beijing Olympic experience.

Q: What was your experience like leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and what were your initial thoughts on being named an Olympian?
DN: I was training out in LA, which was where my base was at. We knew going in that my goal, six years prior to the Olympics, was to actually make the Olympic team so everything I was doing up to that point was to get me ready for that.