Lopez Family’s Amazing Feat (and Feet)

Congratulations to the Lopez family for bringing home three medals in an Olympics where Taekwondo was marred with controversy.
Men’s Heavyweight (Over 80 kg)
Gold Dongmin Cha KOR
Silver Alexandros Nikolaidis GRE
Bronze Chika Yagazie Chukwumerije NGR
Bronze Arman Chilmanov KAZ
Women’s Heavyweight (Over 80 kg)
Gold Maria del Rosario Espinoza MEX
Silver Nina Solheim NOR
Bronze Natalia Falavigna BRA
Bronze Sarah Stevenson GBR
Men’s [...]

Olympic Dad Slashed to Death in Beijing by Crazed Chinese

photo from USAvolleyball.org
Tragedy mars the first day of the Olympics in Beijing when the father of Olympian Elisabeth “Wiz” Bachman was brutally slain, and her mother seriously injured, by a “deranged Chinese man” wielding a knife.
Todd and Barbara Bachman of Lakeville, Minn. — parents of 2004 volleyball Olympian Elisabeth “Wiz” Bachman and in-laws of U.S. [...]