USA WRESTLING NAMES DAN GABLE AS CO-HEAD COACH OF 2000 OLYMPIC FREESTYLE TEAM, JOINING CO-HEAD COACHES JOHN SMITH & GREG STROBEL 
  USA Wrestling has named Dan Gable of Iowa City, Iowa as the third co-head coach of the 2000 U.S. Olympic freestyle wrestling team. 
  Gable joins John Smith of Stillwater, Okla. and Greg Strobel of Bethlehem, Pa. as co-head coaches of the U.S. team. Smith and Strobel were announced as co-coaches on March 31. 
  The decision to include Gable on the coaching staff as a co-head coach was reached by USA Wrestling's Executive Committee during a conference call on April 5. 
  USA Wrestling's selections must still be formally approved by the U.S. Olympic Committee's International Games Preparation Committee. 
  Gable will also join Smith and Strobel as co-head coaches for the 1999 U.S. Freestyle World Team, which will compete in Ankara, Turkey, Oct. 8-11 
  Gable served as head coach of the 1980 and 1984 U.S. Olympic freestyle wrestling teams. The 1980 team was unable to participate in the Moscow Olympics due to the U.S. boycott of the Games. The 1984 U.S. Olympic team dominated the Games, winning seven gold medals and two silver medals. 
  Gable also served as the head coach of  five U.S. World teams (1977, 1978, 1979, 1983 and 1994). Gable coached 10 U.S. World Cup teams, as well as the 1986 U.S. Goodwill Games team. 
  He is considered the most successful college coach of all time, setting numerous career records as the head coach for the Univ. of Iowa. His Iowa teams won 15 NCAA team titles during his 21-year career, including an amazing steak of nine in a row from 1978-86. He retired from college coaching after winning the 1997 NCAA team title, with a record number of team points.  
  Gable was a 1972 Olympic gold medalist and 1971 World champion as an athlete, as well as a two-time NCAA champion for Iowa State Univ. Gable originally hails from Waterloo, Iowa.