The President's Challenge
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The President's Challenge is an American program introduced by the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports that aims to encourage all Americans to "make being active part of their everyday lives" and to be physically fit. It offers the Active Lifestyle program for starters and Presidential Champions for more active people.
There are 5 events, in which participants must meet standards to qualify for The Presidential Physical Fitness Award, The National Physical Fitness Award, and The Participant Physical Fitness Award': curl-ups/sit-ups, pull-ups/arm-hang, one mile run/walk, shuttle run, and sit and reach/v-sit.
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[edit] Website
On January 11, 2012, operators of the the website for participants of the Challenge and Active Lifestyle programs learned that the website had been hacked resulting in the release of personal information of the participants.[1] The President's Challenge website said it was down for "Site Maintenance – We're taking a little breather."[2] On January 20, 2012, the website was modified to explain the hacking.[3]
On January 27, 2012, The President's Challenge sent out emails to its participants saying that the website was functional as of January 24, 2012, and asked participants to reset their user passwords.[4][5]
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[edit] References
- ^ Tau, Bryon (January 19, 2012). "Let's Move-affiliated website hacked". Politico. Politico.com. http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/01/lets-moveaffiliated-website-hacked-111532.html. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
- ^ "Site Maintenance". The President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition. https://www.presidentschallenge.org/maintenance/index.shtml. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
- ^ "We apologize for the site maintenance. We will be back up soon.". The President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition. https://www.presidentschallenge.org/maintenance/index.shtml. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
- ^ Important Security Information
- ^ The President's Challenge Facebook page
