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Former Olympian Klete Keller Stormed The Capitol Building in January Insurrection

SI's Pat Forde shares the fall from grace of former Olympian Klete Keller who stormed The Capitol Building in the January 6th insurrection
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In today's Daily Cover, Sports Illustrated senior writer Pat Forde shares the story of Klete Keller. Keller was a gold medal-winning swimmer and a part of the relay team along with Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte, the team that won gold in Athens in 2004. Forde describes the struggles of Keller's recent years which came to a head when he was part of the group that stormed The Capitol Building in the January 6th insurrection. 

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Pat Forde
PAT FORDE

Pat Forde is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated who covers college football and college basketball as well as the Olympics and horse racing. He cohosts the College Football Enquirer podcast and is a football analyst on the Big Ten Network. He previously worked for Yahoo Sports, ESPN and The (Louisville) Courier-Journal. Forde has won 28 Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest awards, has been published three times in the Best American Sports Writing book series, and was nominated for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize. A past president of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and member of the Football Writers Association of America, he lives in Louisville with his wife. They have three children, all of whom were collegiate swimmers.

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