CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (18/SEP/2012).- Cruz Azul was eliminated from the Mexican cup to tie 1-1 (1-2 overall) with Rojinegros of Atlas, in match group stage for the sector two, played in Azul stadium.

The celestial dream of endorsing the cup that obtained in the latest version then diluted that had put forth with both Javier Orozco in the 13th minute, but that was reached in 27 with Sergio Santana annotation penalty.

The defeat leaves Cruz Azul chance to qualify to the quarter-finals, even as a possible best second place, left with nine points, 11 to Neza arrived. Altamira remained at nine, same as Atlas, which added the extra.

The ability to get to the next stage of the tournament forced the blue box to go to the party and in the 13th minute opened the scoring with a goal by Orozco, who with cross shot beat Jesus Gallardo for 1-0 (1-1 overall ) to pass along
Jesus Lara.

Everything Seemed to be going well for the local team, but in the 27th minute, Luis Bolaños was fouled inside the area of Jair Pereira for which the maximum penalty mark, Sergio Santana claimed that a good way to make it 1-1 (1 Global -2) in 28.

Having no good dividends in their arrivals on the wings, the box "cementero" tried to reach the center, but also had difficulty scoring chances baste on the goal defended by Jesus Gallardo. So they went to break.

For the second half, atlista table was dedicated to keeping the tie, while the Azul insisted for a goal of passing the quarter-finals and took it into Orozco, who lost the option for a goal and when he had two companions to serve in the 60th minute on a counterattack.

When the most insisted Cruz Azul's goal advantage, Hector Gutierrez received his second cardboard preventive in 72 minutes to win the expulsion and leave his team with 10 men and the possibility of elimination.

Despite the numerical disadvantage, the whole sky was scoring some actions on the part of Gallardo who became the figure to prevent the fall of his frame in a shot from Javier Aquino that threatened to end in a goal in 82.

The work of Victor Bisguerra whistling was acceptable and the "Machine" Hector Gutierrez admonished twice to expel in 72, while for "Foxes" Luis showed preventive Blaños cardboard, Jesus Gallardo, Ricardo Bocanegra, Christian Sanchez and Lucas Ayala .

Lineups:

Cruz Azul. - Yosgart Gutierrez, Nestor Araujo, Jair Pereira, Adrian Cortes, Rogelio Chavez, Israel Castro (Alejandro Vela, 62), Francinilson Santos, Hector Gutierrez, Marco Angulo (Javier Aquino, 46), Javier Orozco and Jesus Lara (Omar Bravo, 66). DT William Vazquez.

Atlas. - Jesus Gallardo, Facundo Erpen, Luis Robles, Hugo Rodriguez, Leandro Cufré (Christian Sanchez, 36), Lucas Ayala, Ricardo Bocanegra, Carlos Gutierrez, Luis Bolaños, Sergio Santana (Jahir Barraza, 46) and Alfredo Sanchez (Luis Alonso Sandoval, 62). DT Thomas Boy.

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The Swiss tennis player says he feels exhausted after the intense season this year

PARIS, FRANCE (19/SEP/2012.) - The Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, world number one, says he needs a vacation because he is very tired after a strong season in which he has served 31 years and has regained the crown of tennis world.

I have a great need for vacation. I'm injured, tired, exhausted and I need to decide where to cut he "says statement that includes today's edition of French newspaper" L'Equipe ".

After contributing to the Swiss Davis Cup victory against the Netherlands, which assures the Swiss a place next year between the teams that will be for the bowl, the best player in the world said he has to think to decide how to deal with the rest of the season

I have not decided anything about the end of the season. Although there is an established program, everything can change. Up to me to decide what is important, what is most important and what is really important, "he said.

With 69 games played in 2012, a seventh Wimbledon title and an Olympic silver managed to add to his resume, the Swiss want to think long term and do not rule out a break, as happened last year, when it took six weeks holiday after the U.S. Open.

First of all, I have to think long term, over the next six to twelve months, "said the player with more Grand Slam titles in history, which aims to keep the number one ranking in the ATP at the end of the campaign, although not necessarily their number one target, he said.

Although it seems that is not committed their participation in the tournament in Basel (from 22 to 28 October) and the Masters Cup in London (from 5 to 12 November), Federer could avoid citations Shanghai (7 to 14 October) and Paris-Bercy (October 29 to November 4).

Last year, the Swiss did not dispute the Chinese tournament, bringing one victory before retiring he would score points and please their sponsors.

However, the situation is reversed facing the 1000 Paris Masters, fast track in the title and defending prelude Masters Cup, which closes the season.

The Swiss, who pause would endanger his position as number one in the ATP ranking, has already secured a ticket to London, like Novak Djokovic (2), Andy Murray (3) and Spanish Rafael Nadal (4), while the other four contenders still to be decided.

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Javier Hernandez returns as a starter and scored in the win for the Red Devils'''' over Wigan

The Mexican striker Javier "Chicharito" Hernández returned to the team title with Manchester United and did so with a goal and assist in the Old Trafford stadium in the 4-0 victory over Wigan Athletic at the start of the day four Premier League.

After seeing action just 18 minutes in three games, Hernandez received the opportunity of Alex Ferguson and started home, and even missed a penalty six minutes just washed his error in the plugin to work with the result.

Forced to victory, the Red Devils were better much of the first half and created the better chances, as a penalty "gifted"
nailing after Danny Welbeck, same as the badly executed "Chicharito" and who saved the Omani goalkeeper Ali Al-Habsi Abdullah Harib.

Despite attempts by Mexican and Welbeck, the gunners were not
thoughtful on offense and Ali Abdullah Harib occasions was wise that was required to send the game to break scoreless.

Just six minutes had elapsed when the visiting goalkeeper complement erred because no forwarding service wise way and opened the way for the home win, as Paul Scholes, inside the area, fired

Manchester United seized the moment and continued his feast of goals. After a shot-Dutch center Alexander Buttner, diverting the ball Javier Hernandez on the edge of the penalty area to make it 2-0 and get his first target of the season, at 63 '.

The same Buttner, at 66 ', got his touchdown after a great individual move down the left, where you headed to the area, took off three defenders and shot from a tight angle to beat the goalkeeper for the 3-0 Omani.

Since the Dutch star Robin van Persie on the court, the "Chicharito" put half goal, but the striker failed local front of goal, the Mexican national team put another service, this outside the box to Nick Powell, who with powerful right managed the final 4-0, 82.

So, in a match where Hernandez Balcazar was active and took the opportunity in his return to the title, Manchester United reached nine points, while his rival was left with four.

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The Mexican boxer takes a short but successful career

It was on October 29, 2005 when he began his career and in 2011 won the World Middleweight Championship

It is one of the best Mexican fighters of today. Saul "Canelo" Alvarez again demonstrated his dominance as welterweight champion on Saturday, a victory that even today continues to enjoy as much as the time when the crowned once again saw his dream.

That is why we take a look at the five moments that have marked the short but successful history of "Canelo".

1) The ring of A Star is Born

It was on October 29, 2005 when the youngest of seven brothers boxers began his career in the Arena "Chololo Larios" in Tonala, Jalisco itself that gave birth to the new promise of sport fists, because his 15 years at an TKO blunt, Abraham Saul Alvarez defeated Gonzalez in a debut with his right foot which ultimately would bring more success.

2) The big leagues

He had reached the age of 20 when the "Canelo" received the best news of his career, as the developer "Golden Boy" Oscar de la Hoya signed September 20, 2010 the boxer Jalisco in a contract that sealed 10 fights or three years and the amount of which was never revealed, which was intended to boost the career of Alvarez not only in Mexico but in the United States.

3) World Middleweight Champion

After failing to tackle the race for the welterweight title of the World Boxing Association, the WBC gave his vote for the Mexican fought middleweight title vacated by Manny Pacquiao after it had made no defense in three months giving them the opportunity to "Canelo" to dispute it with Matthew Hatton. The satisfaction catapult and give the spotlight to Alvarez. Come on 5 March last year when he won the World Championship Middleweight World Boxing Council's unanimous decision to win the British backdrop of the Honda Center in Anaheim California.

4) Fourth defense

Having emerged victorious from the strife against Ryan Rhodes, Alfonso Gomez and Kermit Cintron, the Mexican boxer faced the fourth defense of his middleweight title on 5 May this year against Shane "Sugar" Mosley at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. This was perhaps the most fierce and complicated struggle that has faced the "Canelo," which won a unanimous decision to retain his title and, in a fight that was the prelude to that held Miguel Cotto and Floyd Mayweather.

5) Stellar Victory

He arrived when expected and Saul Alvarez finally starred in his first bout in Las Vegas star, where it sought to endorse his title for the fifth time in the middleweight and that was face to face with Josesito Lopez. Five rounds were enough for the Mexican left no chance to the U.S. and take the fight by TKO, making it clear he's ready to be measured with more senior rivals.

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DESCRIPTION
Soccer is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each and a referee, the object is to move the ball across the field to try to locate it within the opposing goal and put the ball into the goal by a goal , which is important for a professional football game 90 minutes, a player, depending on their position, runs between 6 and 11 kilometers. Football is one of the most popular sports worldwide, both popular and professional levels. But the history of football, far from always linked to the greatness of a popular sport, has been subject to the vicissitudes of history and adapting to each culture up to become what we know today as football

ORIGINS
The history of football could start in ancient Egypt, since during the third century BC was made a ball game as part of fertility rite, which was practiced something similar to handball. However in China had already invented the leather ball a century earlier, when Fu-Hi, inventor and one of the five great rulers of ancient China, created a spherical mass gathering several hard roots shaped bristles to that rawhide coated; born with this leather ball, with which he played just to pass from hand to hand. Continue football history in ancient Greece, where Homer became even alluding also to a ball game, which they called "esfaira" or "esferomagia".

In the early nineteenth century began to undergo the "dribble-game" in public schools and went on to major universities (Oxford, Cambridge) where he wrote the first rules (the first regulation of Cambridge appeared in 1848) and in 1863 he founded the football Association, born called "modern game", or "Association Football" and separating the current rugby game. The separation between the rugby and football or soccer emerged in British Rugby University, where he began to play sport that allowed catch the ball with your hands and run with it.

The name "soccer" comes from the English word "football", which means "foot" and "ball."


The game consists of two teams playing a game, everyone can have a maximum of 11 players in the field, and not less than 7, although the latter number may vary depending on the competition. One of the players must be the goalkeeper. In official competitions may be made up to 3 changes in one game per team, and the bank may take 3 to 7 alternates, depending on the rules of the competition. For international team matches "A", you may have up to six substitutes on the bench.
The referee is the one who has full authority to enforce the rules of the game in the match to which he has been appointed. Besides the referee two assistant referees, who are responsible for helping the referee in making individual decisions by its location in the field.
Each match is played over two periods of 45 minutes each, unless mutually agreed between the referee and the two participating teams otherwise agreed. Prior to the start of the game, the captains of both teams meet with the referee in the midfield. One chooses one side of a coin to be launched by the referee. The player who guesses which side the coin fell towards that goal must choose his team attack, while the other party starts moving in midfield.

FIFA Official Rules 2010-2011

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Founded in 1939 as a three-team league in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Little League Baseball encouraging local volunteers to organize and operate Little League programs for which they were leased annually by Little League Baseball International.

Each league is self structured to better serve children in the area where the league operated. Several specific divisions of Little League Baseball and Softball is available for children between 5 and 18 years.

The administrative office of the organization is located in South Williamsport. The first World Series of Little League Baseball in Williamsport were played in 1947. In 1953 Little League were televised for the first time. Jim McKay was the commentator for CBS and Howard Cosell participated as a commentator on ABC radio.

In 1957 Angel Marcias threw a perfect game and Monterrey, Mexico became the first team outside the United States to win a World Series Little League. In 1969 Taiwan began an era of dominance as we saw them win 17 titles in the World Series of Little League but none of the youth came to the major leagues.

In 1960 a team from West Berlin, of West Germany was the first European team to play in the World Series of Little League. The series were broadcast live for the first time on ABC and Little League grew to over 27.400 computers in more than 5,500 leagues.

Currently there are seven international regions besides the United States. Canada is a region, Latin America is separated from Mexico and the Caribbean, the Far East split between Asia-Pacific and European region was separated from the Transatlantic region. Everyone is playing Little League.

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Autor: Mario Yañez

Summer camp Juventus translates to an incredible vacation sports for children between 7 and 16 years old who want to improve their game. The headquarters of the Juventus Summer Camp 2012 will be at the Hotel Friendly.

From 22 to 28 July 2012, the Friendly Hotel will host the Juventus Summer Camp will feature a technical team of specialized and highly qualified coaches to ensure not only the fun, but also the improvement the level of the players.

The training will be held in the Sports "Agustin Flores Contreras" which is located just 500 meters away.

The Juventus Summer Camp is not just the football practice and training. The day's activities include other sports, activities and hilarious moments relaxing break. Every hour will be full of surprises, returning participants the real stars of the party.

The technical program is marked by four slogans to follow:
• Play
• Feeling
• Grow
• Improve

The Center for the Study of Juventus University, has designed and developed for children in this camp, modern teaching methods that enable everyone to better express their skills, improve their technical and tactical skills as well as learning the secrets of football.

The weekly program, which offers two daily training sessions will be complemented and enriched with videos, tutorials, internal tournaments, games, challenges and valuable advice for all participants

For more information of the Juventus Summer Camp 2012, call the Friendly Hotel Desk.

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World's largest swimwear model and photographer talent search highlights a week of
sport and fitness competitions and nightly parties in Puerto Vallarta August 23 through
August 31, 2008.

More than 180 models and photographers will be competing from eight countries for
more than $200,000 in cash, awards, gifts, scholarships and prizes in this event that has
been appropriately dubbed the "Olympics" of swimwear competitions. Not only will they
compete for magazine covers and lucrative modeling contracts, the models,
photographers and guests will also participate in events that range from a 5k run and 50
meter swim, to golf and deep-sea fishing tournaments.

Many of the events are open to locals and non-models, and each of the event's five days
culminates in theme-related parties around the town. This year will also feature a contestwithin-
a-contest for Mexico-resident models and photographers only. The winners of the
Ujena TV Special Model and Photographer Contest will be featured in a one-hour
televised special aired on Televisa and receive coverage in Maxim en Espanol magazine.

"This year's event is the biggest Jam ever in terms impact on the Mexican marketplace,"
said Bob Anderson, founder of the Ujena Swimwear Company and creator of the Ujena
Jam. "We have an unprecedented 30 events and contests during the week, including a
$20,000 Bisbee's Offshore Ujena JAM fishing tournament and the 3rd Annual El Tigre
Ujena JAM golf tournament. There will be more than 100 hours of video footage shot
that will air to millions of viewers worldwide."

The event will also be used to launch a new energy drink to the Mexico market. Verve, a
healthy energy drink and product of the Arizona-based Vemma company, will be
distributed free during the event as the networking company officially launches business
in Mexico.

Ujena Jam week has become a late summer tradition in Puerto Vallarta, attracting
hundreds of local visitors, media and industry executives. Editorial crews from Women's
Fitness magazine, Maxim en Espanol, Lifestyles Family Fitness and Ujena Magazine and
local media will be covering the action and looking for new talent. The Ujena Jam Expo
at the NH Krystal hotel and spa allows media and business sponsors to network and find
new talent for models, spokespersons and photographers.

In addition to Bisbee, El Tigre and Verve, some of this year's sponsors are Nikon, Pepsi,
Corona, Gatorade, Action Event Pros, Tinbu, C1RCA skateboard company, BetCris, the
NH Krystal's nightclub Christine's, the Crown Paradise hotel, tequilas premium, RMX
radio and the city of Puerto Vallarta.

"Welcome Ujena to Puerto Vallarta. You are at the most beautiful tourist destination. We
are happy and proud to welcome the Ujena JAM with opened arms, let us pamper you
with the warmth of the people in our city that will make you feel at home. Our main
objective is that you have the best unforgettable moments and that you always come
back." said mayor of Puerto Vallarta, Lic. Francisco Javier Bravo Carbajal.

The Ujena Jam's 3rd annual Party by the Sea takes place during the day on the busy
streets of downtown and offers a chance for everyone in town to watch the photo shoots
and participate in the fun and outside of Hilo Sunday August 24th starting at 4pm.

Already the world's largest live model and photographer talent search, the Ujena Jam's
emphasis on fitness contests puts it in a class of its own. While most events and
competitions are provided for fun and entertainment, all competing models and
photographers must participate in the 5k run, even if they walk.

More than 400 runners are expected to participate in this year's 5k, which now attracts
quality runners as well as fun runners. Its inclusion as a mandatory event is not
surprising, given Anderson's background. Prior to Ujena, at age 17, Anderson started
Runner's World magazine and built it into a $30 million dollar company that launched
America's love affair with running in the 1970s. The Ujena 5K is set for Saturday August
30 at 9am across from the Sheraton. $1000 in cash prizes will be awarded.

"With the race, a swim, an extreme hike, soccer tournament and even an acrobatics
competition there is always something going on during the Ujena Jam week," says
Alberto Estarrano, Director of Ujena en Espanol. "The events are why this event
continues to grow each year."

Most all events welcome spectators. Many of the fitness and sporting events are open to
local and non-model participants. A full schedule of events and times can be viewed at
ujenajam.com. All competing models and photographers will be featured at
ujenatalent.com and full coverage of the event and awards will be at ujenajam.com and
ujena.tv.

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With explosive speed, a powerful left foot and a penchant for slicing through opposing defenses, Edgar Castillo has established himself as one of the top young American soccer players.

Player for Santos Laguna, the reigning Mexican league champion, just as he was as a high school phenomenon in Las Cruces, N.M., where he was born and raised.

But despite his talents and his development as a player in the United States, Castillo will never play for the national team. He holds dual American and Mexican citizenship, and after being wooed by Mexico's former coach, Hugo Sánchez, Castillo decided earlier this year to represent Mexico in international competition. FIFA rules prohibit a player from changing countries after turning 21.

Even more frustrating for United States soccer officials, Castillo said he would have liked to have played for the United States but never attracted much interest until Mexico reached out to him first.

"It would have been nice — to be from the U.S. and play for the U.S.," Castillo said in an interview last week when he was in the Los Angeles area with Santos for the SuperLiga tournament. "I was wondering what the U.S. was thinking, why they were not calling me."

The case of Castillo, who has played for Mexico's national team and the country's under-23 team, exemplifies a situation that United States officials want to avoid.

"There is a sense that we can't let this happen again," said Hugo Salcedo, a member of the 1972 United States Olympic soccer team, who has worked with FIFA and advises Hispanic soccer players in the United States on their careers. "Now we have more American scouts looking at the Hispanic community and trying to bring players into our national camps."

Sunil Gulati, the president of the United States Soccer Federation, said Castillo was more of an exception than part of a pattern. He cited defender Michael Orozco, who was born to Mexican parents and raised in Orange County, Calif., and plays for San Luis in Mexico and is on the United States Olympic team for the Beijing Games.

Since being elected to his post in 2006, Gulati has stressed reaching out to players in immigrant and urban communities and reducing the cost of playing competitive youth soccer.

The recent creation of the United States Soccer Development Academy, a league of 62 top youth club teams, is one strategy. The Los Angeles Fútbol Club, a primarily Hispanic team that Gulati said officials previously did not know much about, has been one of the academy's surprise success stories.

He also pointed to the hiring of Wilmer Cabrera, a native of Colombia, as coach of the United States under-17 men's team.

Bob Bradley, the coach of the United States national team, tried to persuade Castillo to consider playing for the United States after Mexico made its move. He said he viewed this situation as a function of Castillo's rapid development.

Coaches were familiar with Castillo as a young player in New Mexico, Bradley said, but he had not truly caught their eye until after he debuted for Santos in 2006. By then, it was too late.

"When he had just begun to play for Santos regularly, Mexico brought him in for a friendly," Bradley said. "That makes the process more challenging. There's more tension to the whole thing, and the time line of trying to watch a guy for a little bit and find the right time is more difficult."

Bradley attended the Santos-Chivas USA game last week, which Chivas won, 1-0. Castillo was one of the most dangerous players on the field, creating some of Santos's best scoring chances with swift probing runs from the left side.

"We want to always do everything possible to be on top of the talented players that could play for the United States and try to bring them into our teams at the right time," Bradley said. "When we miss out on somebody, it is frustrating for sure."

For those who knew Castillo in Las Cruces, his situation is equally frustrating

BEIJING — Inside an authentic Mexican restaurant, the mariachi band played "Guantanamera" while the one-man melting pot walked inside. "Hola," Larry Langowski said. Skip to next paragraph

Only at the Olympics could one expect to find an athlete like Langowski, a self-described Polexican — part Polish, part Mexican — who lives in Chicago, runs the family-owned Italian gelato cafe and is the sole member of the Mexican wrestling team: four cultures blended into one man. He was on his way into a Mexican restaurant that serves an Olympic parrillada: a combination of chicken, beef, chorizo, cheese, fried fish, fresh shrimp and refried beans, served with corn tortillas.

"Taste delicious taco, feel real Olympic," the menu says. The one-man melting pot is feeling real Olympic these days. He lives in the Olympic Village. He eats in the spacious dining hall. He hopes to run into the American softball player Jennie Finch. Maybe he can explain to her just how he got here, just what he represents.

"I'm the product of different cultures," Langowski said, finishing off a bowl of tortilla soup. "I've been to a lot of cool places, done a lot of cool things. That all pretty much mixes into who I am."

He can say grandma in three languages. He speaks fluent English and Spanish. At Heavenly, the cafe where his family serves eight types of gelato in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, people mistake him for Italian, even Greek. At Mexican restaurants back home, waitresses ask if he is Cuban after he orders in Spanish.

People gravitate to his story because it seems humorous. (So this Polish guy from Chicago who makes up the Mexican wrestling team walked into a bar. ...)

But there is another story about how he became the melting pot, about how he ended up at these Olympics, wearing a fanny pack with a Mexican flag on it.

"People never tell that part," Langowski said. "My whole story sometimes throws people off. There's stuff in there that doesn't fit in a box. I guess I confuse people."

Langowski, 23, arrived here Aug. 7, with two weeks to kill before the 120-kilogram qualifications in the freestyle wrestling competition started Thursday. Before losing his first match to Fardin Masoumi of Iran, Langowski spent a lot of time reflecting on his journey.

Growing up in Chicago, his mother, Maria, often forced him to speak to her in Spanish. She would take him on trips to Mexico City, and each time, she said her relatives were amazed at what the boy knew about their culture.

"It is a very rich culture," she said. "It was very important that he learned it."

His father, also Lawrence, calls his son Junior, and he still remembers the first time Junior wrestled. In a takedown tournament at the beginning of high school, without so much as a pair of wrestling shoes, Junior took a state champion and tossed him to the ground. The other boy bounced up. Junior threw him down a second time, then a third and a fourth.

Those wrestling skills led Langowski to Northwestern. While on a summer break from college in 2004, he traveled to Mexico City. He inquired with the Mexican wrestling team if there was a place he could work out.

The people there asked him to compete in a tournament instead, and when Langowski nearly beat one of their top wrestlers, they asked him if he would compete internationally, on the spot. If only the rest of his story went that smoothly.

Back at Northwestern in 2005, Langowski tore a knee ligament. After months of rehabilitation, he wrestled for Mexico in the 2005 world championships, and during his sophomore and junior seasons at Northwestern.

The injury essentially ended his collegiate wrestling career and eventually led to reconstructive surgery. He was cut from the Northwestern team after he thought he had been promised a fifth year of eligibility. "A nightmare," his father said.

Langowski continued to compete for Mexico, but found it difficult to navigate two worlds, especially while competing for a country he did not live in. He served as his own travel agent. His family collected $40,000 for training expenses. Just finding a suitable training partner led him to Olympic training centers in Colorado Springs and in Canada.

Meanwhile, the gelato cafe struggled. Langowski took over while his father went back to school to study Chinese acupuncture.

In the Olympic Village the past two weeks, he thought back on all of that.

"I'm here, you know," he said. "That's a huge accomplishment in itself."

He is here, the first Mexican wrestler in the last three Olympics. He is here, after his family threw a party back at Heavenly for several hundred people the day before he left. His mother hired a mariachi band, invited his sixth-grade teacher and professors from Northwestern, decked out the whole place in red, white and green balloons.

He is here, after 36 hours of travel from Mexico City, after waiting for 196 nations to walk before Mexico at the opening ceremony. He is here, the product of so many countries and so many people and so many experiences — the one-man melting pot.

"The coolest thing about the Olympics is not always Michael Phelps," Langowski said. "Sometimes, it's about how you got there."

Jehad Hamdan knows exactly what Langowski means. He tried to represent Palestine in the 2004 Olympics but did not qualify. He trained with Langowski for the past four years. The other night Hamdan sent Langowski a text message that read, "You're proof that dreams do come true."

"There is no question, he is the epitome of the Olympics," Hamdan said. "He is the Olympic dream personified."

Back at the authentic Mexican restaurant, the one-man melting pot just smiled, as the mariachi band played on.

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When Kiwanis–family members are called upon for a day of service, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
In Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, Kiwanians spent many hours in the hot sun painting a school for the second annual Kiwanis One Day held Saturday, April 5, 2008. In Jamaica, more than 600 people attended the Mini Expo and Speakers' Forum to bring global and national climate change to center stage. In Pennsylvania, Kiwanis members teamed with other organizations to offer 3,000 children and adults The Biggest Bedtime Story event, where kids got books and snacks.

And, here in Puerto Vallarta, members of the newly-formed Kiwanis Club of Puerto Vallarta rolled up their sleeves to assist Refugio Infantil Santa Esperanza (RISE), a non-profit shelter for babies and children under the age of 15 who have been turned over by DIF, a Mexican government social services organization that protects the rights of children. Some of these beautiful children come from unbearable situations having been abused, neglected, or simply abandoned. Food was provided by Banana Cantina and crafts facilitated by PVRPV.com.

More than 1,500 Kiwanis-family clubs participated in the Second Annual Kiwanis One Day. Projects undertaken ran the gamut from beach cleanups to book drives, playground maintenance to pet days at senior centers, health fairs to high school beautifications.

For more information on Kiwanis, contact Gary Green at (322) 150-7214 or Jim Boland at (322) 222-2866.