Editing Jim Ryun (section)

==Career prior to election to Congress==
Before being elected to the House of Representatives in 1996, Ryun had operated Jim Ryun Sports, a company that ran sports camps, and worked as a motivational speaker at meetings of corporations and Christian groups around the country.<ref name="C&E">Chris Wilson and Greg St. Clair, [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2519/is_n4_v18/ai_19601706 "The runner's last lap: how Jim Ryun refused to go negative, lost a big lead, then recovered in the final week to win a U.S. House seat"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070322194348/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2519/is_n4_v18/ai_19601706 |date=March 22, 2007 }}, Campaigns & Elections, April 1997, published by Congressional Quarterly</ref> Among his projects, Ryun, who has a 50% hearing loss, helped the ReSound Hearing Aid Company develop a program called Sounds of Success, aimed at helping children with hearing loss. Since 1973, Ryun and his family have hosted running camps every summer for promising high school-aged runners.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jim Ryun Running Camps |url=http://ryunrunning.com/}}</ref>