Aurora has had a number of former, current and future Olympic caliber athletes pass through in recent years and the city may play a part in the search for the next ones as well. The United States Olympic Committee and 24 Hour Fitness teamed up to create the Next Olympic Hopeful program, which will find one male and one female athlete in four sports — skeleton, bobsled, track cycling and rugby — through a series of national tryouts and cutdowns to earn spots in U.S. national team training camps for their sports.
