Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: レアジョブ英会話 Daily News Article Podcast
Episode: Trump revives the Presidential Fitness Test, a rite of passage for schoolchildren for decades
Description: President Donald Trump reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test for American children, a fixture of public schools for decades that gauged young people’s health and athleticism with 1-mile runs, sit-ups and stretching exercises.
“This is a wonderful tradition, and we’re bringing it back,” Trump said of the fitness test that began in 1966 but was phased out during the Obama administration.
An executive order he signed in August also reinvigorates a national sports council that the president stocked with former and current athletes and other figures from the sports world. Several prominent athletes joined Trump and top administration officials.
In the test...