This has nothing to do with Winter Olympics, but it’s worth mentioning.

Bernard Lagat, one of WSU most accomplished athletes, made U.S. Track history Wednesday by becoming the first American to win a World Championship. A few years ago it would have been just another Kenyan win, but Bernard became a U.S. citizen in 2004 and now runs for the U.S. team

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Lagat’s career highlights include:

– U.S. Records in the 1,500, and indoor 1,500, mile and 3,000.

– Bronze at the 2000 Olympics

– Silver at the 2004 Olympics
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Here’s some Olympic updates you can read in tomorrow’s TNT Adventure section.

2010 OLYMPIC COUNTDOWN

897 Days … until the Winter Olympics come to Vancouver, B.C.

LOCAL ATHLETES

– Marni Yamada of Seattle made the U.S. snowboard cross C team on Aug. 15.

– Vic Wild of White Salmon made the U.S. snowboard alpine C team.

TEAMS USA UPDATES

– U.S. cross country physical therapist Aaron Saari summited Mount McKinley – North America’s tallest peak at 20,320-feet – this month.

– When the national snowboard teams were announced this month the

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Vic Wild of White Salmon was named to the U.S. National Snowboard team today. He is an alpine boarder.

Click below to read the release.

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Just when you thought you’ve heard everything, check out this story from the Associated Press:

Jason Bausher didn’t expect a legal fight when he put together a little travel guide to his favorite places on Washington state’s rugged Olympic Peninsula.

Intellectual property lawyers at the U.S. Olympic Committee had other ideas. Worried that his "Best of the Olympic Peninsula" might tread on the committee’s valuable trademarks, the USOC pushed the part-time park ranger to drop his request for a trademark.

A few years back, the whole thing might have ended with a simple disclaimer that allowed Bausher

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