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Trump revives presidential fitness test – will US students run a mile?

Test, first introduced by Eisenhower, evaluates US students’ physical fitness with pull-ups, sit-ups and a mile-long run

Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he is reestablishing the presidential fitness test, a way of assessing the fitness level of American students.

The test was administered in public middle and high schools in the United States from 1966 to 2013, when the Obama administration replaced it with the presidential youth fitness program – a similar physical assessment program, but with more focus on health education.

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