Karen Nickerson has been in too many sweaty, hot wrestling gyms to keep track. But as she sits under the fluorescent lights of the Olympic Training Center’s wrestling room, watching her son Troy train, she knows that she, and Troy, are in the right place.

Troy is a resident wrestler at the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center and a London 2012 hopeful. He has been living at the Colorado Springs OTC since April, but this is his mother’s first visit to the complex.

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