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Chris Bono: Torn Whether To Keep On Wrestling
By: Ward Gossett
For close to five hours Wednesday, Chris Bono had nothing to do but drive and fly and think as he went from one wrestling clinic to another.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga coach hasn’t yet made it home after last weekend’s loss at the U.S. Olympic team trials in Las Vegas.
He flew from Las Vegas to Atlanta and then drove to the Tallahassee, Fla., area to work a camp. Wednesday he was back in the car driving to Atlanta to catch a flight for St. Louis and another one-day clinic.
“I’ve got a bag of dirty clothes and a lot of thinking to do,” said Bono, who came within a win of wrestling for a berth in the Olympic Games.
“It’s tough whenever I’m alone,” he said of the loss that might have been the last match of his career. “It is always on my mind — not so much what I could have done but how close I was. Everything fell into place. The training was perfect and I felt perfect. It was all right there.
