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...make sure the liquids were not poisoned. Three villages were burned near his home. "They do it to show their aggression. It's their revenge not to let us go back," he says. Another man, taking shelter at an old school in Tbilisi, says he left his sick mother behind in her home in his native village and is now worried she is going to be burned alive. He says he has heard reports since he left that the whole village was torched. "If they burn the house, she will die inside," says the man, Tamaz Zangaladze, 55, who adds...
...tough a life as Cejudo, a grueling day is routine. He spent his first four years in South Central Los Angeles, the son of illegal immigrants from Mexico City. His father, Jorge Cejudo, was a career criminal who shuttled in and out of jail. Nelly Rico, Henry's mother, moved her six kids to New Mexico to flee Jorge before he got out of a California prison...
...Despite the chaos, his mother was strict. "We called her the Terminator back home," he says. "In our house, if you cried about something, you'd get laughed at." In a crowded house, tempers flared. Henry and his brother Angel, 22, were sparring partners. "They used to freakin' pull out chains and knives and s___," says brother Alonzo, 28, who made the trip to Beijing with Angel, their sister Gloria, 25, and an entourage of former coaches and close friends. The practice at home paid off: combined, Angel and Henry won six Arizona state wrestling titles...
...Cejudo plans on giving the gold medal to his mother, who, though not a U.S. citizen, is now a resident alien. "You ask my mom, she'll tell you she's American," Cejudo says. "She has to study for the [citizenship] test." A few years ago, Cejudo had an itch to reunite with his father. He never had the chance; Jorge Cejudo died in Mexico City in May 2007 from heart failure that stemmed from years of alcohol and drug abuse. He was 44. "I would sure have loved him to see what we've been through," says Cejudo...
...Oregonian and her parents' immediate concern was how to get her back cheering as quickly as possible. "As an orthopedic surgeon is explaining she'll have a metal plate in her arm for the rest of her life, we're asking, 'But can she still tumble?' " recalls Bright's mother, Kim Archie, now executive director of the National Cheer Safety Foundation (NCSF). Archie started the organization after hearing about more and more injuries like her daughter's. "Girls are willing to do anything to win," she says...