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President Donald Trump at the UFC fight on the White House lawn on June 14. (Bonnie Cash\/Pool\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

The Patriot Games now have an official schedule.<\/p>\n

Details about the Freedom 250 event<\/a>, in which teens will compete in a three-day athletic competition, have remained sparse. What we know: Events start Sunday and run through Tuesday in Geneva, Ohio. Contestants will be between 14 and 17 years old. Each state will have a male and female representative, most of whom were selected from an application pool. There will be two winners, one of each gender, who will share a $250,000 prize pool. And the ESPN app will broadcast every moment.<\/p>

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What will any of this actually consist of? That was a mystery until ESPN announced its broadcasting plan Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

Sunday will feature dodgeball and kickball. Monday is the \u201cVarsity Circuit\u201d and \u201cOperation Endurance,\u201d two vague events that may involve track-and-field contests. Tuesday will include tug-of-war and pop-a-shot before a semifinal and final, which will determine the winners.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe athletes will be tested on the skills from the Presidential Fitness Test, go through a military-inspired boot camp circuit,\u201d ESPN wrote in its press release. \u201cAnd finalists will compete in an obstacle course designed to test strategy and skill.\u201d<\/p>

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