[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 15]
[House]
[Pages 20191-20192]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     HONORING OLYMPIAN DAVID PAYNE

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, today I have the honor of recognizing 
Olympian David Payne, who hails from the Cincinnati suburb of Wyoming, 
on his remarkable athletic accomplishment in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. 
David brought home a silver medal in the 110 meter hurdles. He leaned 
across the finish line in an outstanding time of 13.17 seconds, really 
a tremendous effort.
  Yet his road to the Olympics and the medal was not an easy one. David 
overcame a number of adversities in order to attain this goal.
  In February, he had surgery to his appendix, had it removed. A month 
later, he bruised his heel bone, only to find out 6 weeks later that he 
had a stress fracture in the left tibia. ``It hurts when I train,'' he 
said, ``but it is an Olympic year, and in an Olympic year like this, 
you push until you can't push anymore.''
  David is just one class short of earning his degree from the 
University of Cincinnati and intends to return during the 2008 winter 
indoor season to finish.
  Good luck, David, and congratulations on your outstanding 
performance.

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