Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Glenville's Jeremy Liggett (white) throws Tanner Singh on his way to locking up the alternate Olympic slot at 66kg in the U.S. judo trials on June 13 in las Vegas. (Lou DiGesare/Realjudo.net)