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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Jason Pierre-Paul dropped into coverage during Saturdays full-padded practice and a gift awaited.The ball had come free from?New York Giants?quarterback Eli Mannings hand, squirting into the flat where Pierre-Paul stood alone. He scooped the ball and raced toward the end zone.The impressive part wasnt that Pierre-Paul scored. It was that he corralled the ball in one clean swoop, without missing a beat, despite playing with a deformed right hand that is now covered simply by a glove. Pierre-Paul played last season with a club on the right hand.What do you think? Pierre-Paul said when asked how the hand was holding up under full contact. Im out there running and banging people.Pierre-Paul insists there has been no special maintenance at training camp this summer. He has been unaffected by the contact, which included four practices in the past five days with pads.My hand feels like my left hand, Pierre-Paul said, just missing a couple fingers.Pierre-Paul had his right index finger amputated following a Fourth of July weekend fireworks accident last summer. He also lost parts of at least two other fingers, and needed another surgery as recently as earlier this year.It affected his play last season. Pierre-Paul admittedly had trouble grabbing and tackling with the club, but he has been steadfast it wont be a problem this year.Pierre-Paul had one sack in eight games last year. The Giants are expecting significant improvement.Jason looks like a beast out here. His motor is running hot, general manager Jerry Reese said last week. You are talking about a guy that looks like he is on a mission. He looks like he is on a mission to me. Actually, I was talking to coach [Ben] McAdoo [last Saturday] and he was like, Man, I have to tone Jason down a little bit because he is going so hard out there.He is a man on a mission and he looks like the old JPP.Pierre-Paul, 27, will be used differently this season. With the natural limitations of his hand and the offseason signing of defensive end Olivier Vernon, Pierre-Paul has been playing almost exclusively on the left side. He lined up primarily as a right defensive end in recent years.Defensive line coach Patrick Graham insists he doesnt look at Pierre-Paul any differently despite his hand.I just know hes out there being effective as a football player, as a defensive end, and working around different situations, Graham said. So hes doing a good job for me.Still, Pierre-Paul is not happy with where he is at this point of camp. He believes more improvement is on the horizon.Im getting there, Pierre-Paul said. 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But it will also do so in Brazil with four players who were not part of the World Cup effort and a noticeably younger roster than that which enjoyed success a year ago.The U.S. opens Olympic group play against New Zealand on Aug. 3 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.The Olympic roster includes 10 of 11 players who started last years World Cup final against Japan. One is midfielder and co-captain Carli Lloyd, who in 2015 won both the Golden Ball as the World Cups outstanding player and FIFA Player of the Year. She also scored the goals that clinched gold medals in both the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.Lloyd played 45 minutes as a substitute for the United States in a win this past weekend against South Africa, her first time on the field since spraining her right knee in a National Womens Soccer League game in April.The roster includes midfielder Tobin Heath, forward Alex Morgan, defender and co-captain Becky Sauerbrunn and goalkeeper Hope Solo. Along with Lloyd and Rapinoe, each of those six players have appeared more than 100 matches for the United States.It also notably includes Rapinoe, whose status was one of the biggest question marks leading up to the announcement. The 31-year-old midfielder has yet to play in a game for the United States in 2016 after tearing her right ACL in training before a December game in Hawaii that was subsequently canceled because of concerns about the playinng surface.dddddddddddd.Lloyd, Morgan, Rapinoe, Sauerbrunn and Solo are also the named parties in an unresolved federal complaint filed against U.S. Soccer alleging wage discrimination.That veteran core notwithstanding, this is the first U.S. roster for a major tournament since the 1999 World Cup that does not include a member of that iconic team. The United States was the oldest team in the 2015 World Cup, with an average age of 29.5. The average age of this Olympic roster is 27.8. 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