AIMING FOR OLYMPIC GLORY

The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, slated Aug. 5-21, will be worth following since 15 world-class athletes from around the globe have ties to south Lake County.

“We are the ‘Choice of Champions,’” Clermont spokesperson Doris Bloodsworth says of her city’s logo, which pays tribute to the thousands of athletes who traveled from 25 countries since 2001 for the opportunity to train at the National

Training Center in Clermont.

Among the Olympic hopefuls: Gymnast Sydney JohnsonScharpf, 15, a Montverde Academy junior, is a contender to become one of five gymnasts (or up to three alternates) to qualify for the United States women’s squad for the Summer Olympics. Sydney is already making history. She’s following the footsteps of her mother, Brandy Johnson-Scharpf, who was on the USA gymnastics team at