Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Lee Korzits grew up at a humble water sports school north of Tel Aviv, where stacks of surfboards stand next to low-slung rusty tin shacks.
It's an unlikely training ground for a three-time world champion and Israel's best hope for an Olympic gold medal in windsurfing, but it's home."I like it like this," Korzits said. "You should have seen it when it was all shipping containers and sand."The 28-year-old Korzits has been in the final weeks of training before heading to London to compete in the RS:X windsurfing competition. It will be her second Olympics, and her first return to the games since two debilitating accidents in the water.Through all the setbacks, it's the sport she loves"All your body works," she said. "It's not like sailing where you sit in a boat. You just use your body to be a steering wheel."Korzits grew up in the small town of Hofit, from the Hebrew word for coast. She moved to the neighboring seaside town of Michmoret when she was in grade school and began taking winds...Lighter winds aided crews at a massive wildfire in southwestern New Mexico's Gila National Forest, but they still were unable to stop the blaze that has raged across...
A massive wildfire that has burned more than 265 square miles in the Gila National Forest has become the largest fire in New Mexico history, fire officials confirmed...
Janice Dean with today's Southwest, Central weather forecast
Crews fighting a wildfire in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico planned to take advantage of lighter winds Sunday by building protection lines on key flanks of t...
Janice Dean with today's Southwest, Central weather forecast
Crews fighting a wildfire in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico benefited from lighter winds Sunday, allowing them to focus on building protection lines on key f...
Maria Molina with today's Southwest, Central weather forecast
A wildfire that destroyed two homes in a rural neighborhood near the California-Nevada line may have been caused by an illegal burn that had been smoldering at a pri...
Maria Molina with today's Southeastern weather forecast
A fast-moving wildfire erupted in a rural neighborhood near the Nevada-California line and destroyed two homes Tuesday but no injuries were reported and the danger f...
Blaze rages as winds push flames out of control
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Storm intensifies as it approaches coast
A wildfire that destroyed two homes in a rural neighborhood near the California-Nevada line may have been caused by an illegal burn that had been smoldering at a pri...
A wind-driven wildfire that erupted in a rural neighborhood near the Nevada-California border and destroyed two homes was moving away from houses Wednesday, authorit...
Maria Molina with today's Southwest, Central weather forecast
Search crews have found the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in southeast Oregon last week.Klamath County Sheriff Tim Evinger says the plane and the body of pi...
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