Jan 17 TAEKWONDO: Field Announced for Jan. 25-26 Olympic Trials
Fight-Offs  Jan. 17, 2008, 1 a.m. (ET) The list of competitors
has been announced for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials Fight-Off
for Taekwondo to be held January 25-26 at the Olympic Training
Center in Colorado Springs. Athletes who did not place first in
the female fin/fly, female bantam/feather and male
bantam/feather divisions at the U.S. Olympic Trials held in
August of 2007 were eligible for the Fight-Off.  The U.S.
qualified those three divisions for the 2008 Olympic Games at
the Pan American Olympic Qualification Tournament in Cali,
Colombia, in December when female fin/flyweight Charlotte Craig
(Murrieta, Calif.), female bantam/featherweight Diana Lopez
(Sugar Land, Texas) and male bantam/featherweight Mark Lopez
(Sugar Land, Texas) all placed in the top three.  The winners of
the double-elimination Fight-Off will face the top-seeded
Charlotte Craig, Diana Lopez and Mark Lopez at the final phase
of the Olympic Trials in Des Moines, Iowa, on A