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Photos clockwise from top left: The 57th FIS’s Lisa Levkulich
crawls through the mat during the obstacle course competiton
while lDF’s Bob Swinland shoots for the hoop. An AFI volleyball
player spikes the way to first place in the three-man competition
while 57th FIS’s tug-of-war team pulls in vain against the
stronger 4557th Supply team. One of the Dental Clinic’s obstacle
course participants navigates his way through the tires as Jody
Blankenship of IDF struggles to maintain her balance in the reft
race.
Cabin Fever Olympics 1990
Teams splash, run, lift, pull an<9
wiggle their way through events

the top of a rolled-
up mat.
Then ca
fun part.!
a diving ma
flippers and a pair
of large rubber
gloves, each team
member had to
shoot a basket
from the three-
point mark within
60 seconds. If the
time elapsed, they
could shoot from
anywhere. After
making the basket,
off came the
diving gear and they began a
mad dash to tag-off the next
person. Once again, the
4557th Supply team took first
place with 7:23:95, followed
by the Hospital with 8:21:90
and the 57th FIS with 8:57:47.
Once the final points were tallied,
the 4557th Supply and 57th FIS were
the top two teams. But the victor
would be decided by the tug-of-war.
The two teams each made a valiant
effort, but the gold went to the 4557th
Supply team when the^nroved to b^_
the stronger team.
After all was saic^^^Hne, PSi V
claimed fourth place^^rlook fifti^®
place; ROICC finished sixth; AFI
captured seventh; Air OPS clinched
eighth; Dental took ninth; Weapons
finished 10th; and CFK finished 11th.
Story by
J02 Jay
Gaona
Photos by
J02 Jay
Gaona&
PH2 Bob
Swinland
other two swimmers towing another rider
back. The 57th FIS set the pace with a time of
1:04:81. Second and third place went to CFK
and PSD, with times of 1:05:50 and 1:15:58
respectively.
The second event, the two-mile relay, was
held Saturday morning in weather that had the
prospective runners voicing their disapproval.
Each member of the four-man teams had to run
a half-mile. Since the object of Cabin Fever
Olympics is to have fun, an open can of
racquetballs was used as the baton and runners
had to keep the balls from falling out without
covering the top with their hands. The 4557th
Supply squad proved to be the best at this
event, with the 57th FIS and AIMD taking
second and third place.
The strong, the not-so-strong, and those
wondering why they were, there turned out for
the bench press competition held Saturday.
Each four-man team grunted, groaned and
grimaced in an attempt to lift the best percent-
age of the team’s total body weight. The
strongmen from 4557th Supply took their
second first-place victory, followed closely by
the 57th FIS and Hospital.
The three-man volleyball tournament began
Saturday and when the finals ended on
Sunday, the AFI team had taken first place,
with ROICC in second and AIMD in third.
The last two Olympic events, the obstacle
course and the tug-of-war, were held Sunday.
In the obstacle course, each six man team had
to step in six tires, crawl through a tunnel
made by a gym
mat and run across
Competition was fierce during the weekend
as 12 teams splashed, ran, lifted, pulled and
wiggled their way through the gym’s annual
Cabin Fever Olympics. The teams competed in
a raft race, 2-mile relay, bench press, three-
man volleyball tournament, obstacle course
and a tug-of-war.
The 4557th Supply finished in first place
overall, edging out the 57th Fighter Interceptor
Squadron (FIS) which finished in a close
second. Third place ended up in a tie between
the Hospital and Aircraft Intermediate Mainte-
nance Department (AIMD).
The raft race, which took place last Friday,
was the first event on the Olympic agenda.
Each six-person team was divided in half, with
two people pulling a rider one way and the

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