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It’s rare that siblings are all good at the same thing - usually one shines where another doesn’t and vice versa. But not in the Lopez family - three of them are on the U.S. Taekwondo Olympic team and their fourth brother is the coach.

The Lopezes - Diana, Mark, Steven, and Jean (the coach) are set to compete in Beijing and hope to bring home three gold medals in their respective categories. Diana and Mark will compete in women’s and men’s featherweight, while Steven will compete in men’s welterweight. Jean, eldest sibling and coach of the team, retired from competition in 1998, but holds many medals and was named U.S. Taekwondo Male Athlete of the Year in 1994.

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You’ve heard of solar power and wind power. But have you heard of wave power?
Japanese sailor Kenichi Horie sure has - he just sailed across the Pacific in a boat powered solely by ocean waves.

Horie, already famous for being the first person to sail across the Pacific back in 1962, took the environmentally friendly, 110 mile journey this spring. He completed his mission on July 4th and secured another first in the sailing world at the age of 69.

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If there was ever an inspirational athlete, it’s Dara Torres. At 41 years of age, Torres has qualified for her fifth Olympics… after giving birth just two years ago and undergoing surgeries on both her knee and shoulder in the past eight months.

While there’s little doubt Torres was born to be an athlete, she’s had to work hard to compete at an Olympic level where most of the competition is half her age. This article on CNN claims that she certainly has the right “protoplasm” and genetic make-up to be an elite swimmer, but that she also has something else…

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Columbia Sportswear is set to sponsor the new Team Columbia in the upcoming Tour de France. Formerly known as Team High Road, Team Columbia consists of 42 male and female cyclists from 17 different nations - all who have conformed to rigorous anti-doping regulations and want to achieve the same goal of winning big races the right way.

Team Columbia will position Columbia Sportswear in the spotlight as a leading outdoor brand in the Tour de France and at least 15 riders from Team Columbia are also set to ride in the summer Olympics in Beijing. Team High Road is one of the top-ranked mens and womens cycling teams in the world, with over 70 combined wins. There’s no doubt that as Team Columbia, they’ll ride to even greater success.
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How much does biologist Adam Warwick love bears? Enough to save a 375-pound black bear from drowning in the Gulf of Mexico.

Warwick jumped in the Gulf to save a gigantic black bear when he noticed the bear showing “signs of distress.” The bear, who had wandered into a residential neighborhood near Tallahassee, had been shot with a tranquilizer dart right before it rushed into the Gulf. Once it had gotten out to sea a bit, the sedation started to take hold and the bear became disoriented.

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