Activist for deported veterans allowed back to U. Pursuit from Jamul to Chula Vista ends with arrest inside church during funeral service. Diana Lopez let fly with one final kick before ending her training session, the skin of her bare foot hitting the target with such force that the crisp smacking sound left her coach leaping for joy.
Steven Lopez is seeking his third Olympic gold medal. Diana Lopez won bronze in Beijing and expects to improve on that this time. That kind of philosophy kind of brings a whole, deeper motivation and incentive to want to win - proving to ourselves that we are who we feel that we are. Taekwondo in London started on Wednesday. On Thursday, Diana Lopez competes, the first step on another Olympic adventure for the Lopez clan that now calls the Houston area home. Julio Lopez was an athlete - Olympic sports, mostly, including track and swimming - while growing up in Nicaragua.
He and his wife eventually made their way to New York, learning a new culture, a new language and a new way of life. Their kids acclimated through sports, all eventually finding their way to taekwondo, the martial art where kicks and punches will now be scored by a computer system.
Jean Lopez, the first-born, became the leader by default. I was always put in a position where I had to translate for my family and kind of help them, guide them through the American culture. So it was a natural transition for me to coach them.
Our family structure is based on hierarchy and my parents have allowed me to make the right decisions for my siblings. When Jean Lopez was competing, it was only natural for Steven and Mark to follow their big brother.
With all three boys involved, it was only natural again for Diana to follow along. It was natural for me to go to local tournaments with my mother and watch my brothers compete, and sometimes be left with my mom at home while my dad would take my brothers away to different tournaments and competitions. So I started doing everything they did. As a kid, she excelled at plenty of sports, volleyball, track, basketball, whatever. He comes from a sports-loving family, his brother Steven is with two Olympic victories and five world titles the most successful athlete in modern Taekwondo, his sister Diana, world champion and Olympic medalist, and his brother Jean is an American coach and founder of the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston.
Mark Lopez celebrated his first international success by winning a bronze medal at the Junior World Cup in in Istanbul. The following year he also won in the adult area, his first World Cup medal he won at the World Cup bronze in the category up to 62 kg.
Other successes Lopez battled with silver at the World Championships in Garmisch -Partenkirchen and its far the only world champion title at the World Championships in Madrid. So he's still here, and appreciating the irony. In , he remembers some saying he was too young to win - and he got gold.
In , he was the oldest competitor out of the at the London Games and it was widely presumed the end had arrived. You can spend five minutes with this guy and get a massive amount of experience. Anytime he stops and starts to get serious and talks taekwondo, everybody in the room gets quiet and listens.
There's nobody in the history of the sport that has his experience and general determination. Like I said, he's the greatest of all time. Lopez won't say definitively if this is the last Olympics for him. But there's a niece and a nephew coming up as well, so it seems at least somewhat likely that there's a Lopez in Tokyo four years from now.
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