COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — For colleges whose athletes and coaches take home Olympic medals, the winning won’t stop when the games are over.
The U.S. Olympic Committee has combined with leaders of Olympic sports and college athletic directors to create an award that will recognize the universities that produce medal winners.
The new U.S. Olympic Achievement Award will be handed out to schools every two years, in an effort to emphasize the importance of American schools in the country’s Olympic pipeline.
There were 43 schools that put medal-winning coaches or athletes in the pipeline over the last Olympic cycle.
