Dick Fosbury

United States Olympic Committee operates as a sports organization in the United States. The company focuses on training, entering, and underwriting the expenses for the U.S. teams in the Olympic, Paralympic, Pan American, and Parapan American Games. Its services include Olympic coaching materials; sports medicine, biomechanics, coaching, coaching programs, games preparation, nutrition, physiology, psychology, strength and conditioning, and technology; and Olympic coach e-magazine. United States Olympic Committee was formerly known as United States Olympic Association. Public Law 805 and changed its name to United States Olympic Committee in January 1961. The company was founded in 1921 and is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It has Olympic training centers in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Chula Vista, California; and Lake Placid, New York.