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Sacramento-Based Firm Springs into Olympic Action.(Originated from , The Sacramento Bee, Calif.)

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| June 15, 1996 | Otani, Emily | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Jun. 15--When organizers for the Atlanta Olympics closing ceremonies were looking for something bouncy, they turned to ABL Regal Trampolines design engineer Curt Feller. They wanted a cross-shaped tumbling surface -- and the Sacramento-based company had just the thing: a product, called FasTrak, it has sold to the renowned Cirque du Soliel and the United States Gymnastics Federation, among others.

Work on the product was completed last week and it was sent, by truck, to Atlanta for the games, which start next month.

"We really try to avoid the word trampoline," said Feller of the FasTrak, because the word suggests certain uses for the apparatus that it wasn't …

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