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Rio police help give favela kids a path

Rio police help give favela kids a path

RIO DE JANEIRO – In a craggy back alley of the Providencia favela in central Rio, two dozen children and teenagers chat noisily while waiting for a military police van to take them for their first visit to the Olympic park.

 

 

 

Steven Lopez makes fifth U.S. Olympic taekwondo team

Steven Lopez makes fifth U.S. Olympic taekwondo team

Steven Lopez is going to a fifth Olympics, hoping to replicate the success of his first three Games and not the disappointment of 2012. Lopez, 37, and first-time Olympian Stephen Lambdin qualified for the Rio Games at a Pan American tournament Thursday. They joined 2012 Mexican Olympic team alternate Jackie Galloway on the U.S.

 

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