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KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Kenia Sinclair mistimed her move in the Olympic final of the 800-meter run at the Beijing Olympics eight years ago, quite possibly costing her a medal. And a bad knee kept her from even stepping onto the track at the London Games in 2012.So heres the early 36th birthday present she gave herself: A return trip to the Olympics.Fighting through a bad hamstring, Sinclair finished second in the womens 800 final at the Jamaican Senior National Championships -- the Caribbean nations version of the Olympic trials -- inside National Stadium on Saturday night. That was good enough to earn her a trip to Rio next month for her sports showcase meet.For me, age is just a number, said Sinclair, who turns 36 on July 14. Im 36 years old, but I feel like I did when I just started. Im not tired. Im well-rested because Ive always been battling with injuries. But I came out here today and my main goal was just to make this Olympic team. Its been a hard three weeks with this hamstring, but I didnt want any excuse.Hamstrings have been the bane of this meet.A bad left hamstring knocked Usain Bolt out of these championships on Friday night, putting his status for the 100- and 200-meter dashes and the 4x100-meter relay at the Rio Games in some doubt. Bolt wasted no time starting to get treatment on the mild tear, tweeting out a photo of his leg getting worked on not long after he withdrew from the meet.This weekends meet in theory decides the Olympic team, though Jamaican rules (unlike ones in the U.S.) allow for some flexibility at the trials through medical exemptions. Bolt plans to show if hes fit enough to return to the Olympics -- and try for a third straight gold in the 100 -- at a meet in London on July 22.So without the biggest show in the sport, the mens 200 went on Saturday, as did the womens 200.There were no real surprises, as the biggest remaining names such as Yohan Blake, Nickel Ashmeade, Elaine Thompson, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Veronica Campbell-Brown all advanced to the finals that will cap the meet on Sunday night. Campbell-Brown is a two-time Olympic 200 champion, though she failed to qualify for the 100 at the Rio Games by finishing fourth in her national final on Friday.But if the meet needed a feel-good story, Sinclair had one to offer.Shes dealt with back issues and the aftereffects of a car crash that made them worse for several years, then had the hamstring issue pop up less than a month ago.Today, I told myself this was going to prove how bad you want to be on the team, Sinclair said. When I got on the line, I didnt think about it. I ran through pain and Im happy with the result.Sinclair finished in 2 minutes, 1.11 seconds -- just ahead of the Olympic standard, though that was irrelevant since shed beat that earlier this season anyway. All she had to do Saturday was finish in the top three to qualify.Nataya Goule won the race in 2:00.23, after a pre-race chat with Sinclair.We wished each other well, good luck, Goule said. Were friends. Even though we raced against each other, were friends. Thats how we do it. Adidas Nmd Herre Sort Tilbud .875,000, avoiding arbitration. Clippards deal Monday means all eight Nationals players who filed for arbitration wound up settling before a hearing. Yeezy Powerphase Fake . 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Didier Drogba gave away the penalty that put Senegal one goal away from a major upset, but the veteran striker will get another chance -- probably his last -- at the World Cup after Salomon Kalous injury-time strike sealed the Ivorians place in Brazil next year. RIO de JANEIRO -- If members of the 2016 U.S. Olympic womens basketball team feel the stress of having only 10 days of preparation time together to avoid being THAT team -- the one that loses the 41-game winning streak and five straight gold-medal victories that American teams have strung together before now -- they can at least find comfort in the luxury ship theyre sharing with the U.S. mens basketball squad for the duration of the Games.When players from both squads arrived Wednesday on a charter flight from Houston, photographers snapped shots of porters in red jackets and white gloves carrying their baggage on board the Silver Cloud, a 296-passenger ship in the Silversea cruise line. A weeklong cruise on the yacht can cost upward of $13,000, and patrons enjoy access to a spa, bar, cigar lounge, several dining areas, verandas and an outdoor pool. Theres also a media room where Team USAs Maya Moore said the womens squad held their first meeting of the Games upon arrival Wednesday.We were only there about an hour, but its definitely comfortable, Moore said with a smile. Ill get a better idea when we go back. But we may have to see about having a [rookie] talent show or something in that room.Other than some possible gripes about where the ship is docked -- its at Pier Maua in Guanabara Bay, one of the heavily polluted waterways in the Rio area -- its unlikely the mens or womens teams will be echoing the sort of complaints the Chinese or Australian delegations (among others) have shared since arriving at the Games.Chinese officials reported some muggings, and Australian-born NBA star Andrew Bogut has tweeted about arriving to find his Olympic village bed is too short to accommodate his 7-foot frame and his room lacks a shower curtain. (He tweeted a photo showing how he decided to rig one himself.) Another athlete tweeted a photo showing where the showerhead had fallen off when he turned on the water -- and all of that was after Kitty Chiller, chief of the Aussie delegation, initially declared the village uninhabitable when the team first arrived and put the bathroom sinks and toilets through stress tests.The Aussies were among the national delegations that also objected to some exposed wiring they found. By the end, one Rio official had enough and shot back that perhaps Games organizers would put kangaroos in each Aussies room to make them feel more comfortable.U.S. basketball wont likely have to worry about any of that.The website description for the Silver Cloud boasts the ship is spacious yet intimate and designed to cross oceans and yet able to slip up rivers and into hidden harbors with ease. ...The yacht-like Silver Cloud offers incomparable comfort and style.Just in case star-crazed fans try to get too intimate, theyll have to get past security measurees like the bullet-proof glass partition surrounding the ship, a metal detector at the beginning of the gang plank heading onboard, and police marksmen who are reportedly stationed on boats that will be patrolling the waters around the ship, according to Britains Daily Mail.ddddddddddddts worth noting that such high-end accommodations arent new for the U.S. basketball teams, or based solely on the pre-Games concerns about Rios readiness to host the world. The practice of staying outside the athletes village started with the first mens Dream Team in 1988. (The coach at the time was Hall of Famer Chuck Daly, then the Pistons coach, whose nickname was Daddy Rich.)We dont stay in the [Olympic athletes] village because we dont feel its the best way to prepare for the competition, USA Basketball spokesman Craig Miller told the Associated Press in February.Right. It just didnt work out that way at the 2004 Athens Games. The U.S. men stayed on the Queen Mary 2, wound up losing to Argentina, and came home with only a bronze medal and red faces.The U.S. women are favored to win here in Rio as heavily as that U.S. mens team was favored.Star guard Diana Taurasi says the chance for the NBA and WNBA stars to mingle off the court is one of the things that makes playing in the Games so much fun. In the offseason she sometimes scrimmages in Los Angeles with Draymond Green and other players from the U.S. mens team. On Wednesday, she noted that the two squads enjoyed the chance on the charter from Houston to Rio to get acquainted and swap stories.But now that theyre all here, a reporter asked Taurasi, what will life be like on the ship? Will it be breakfast with Kyrie Irving and Dwyane Wade? Just hanging out?Yeah, theyre all right, Taurasi joked. You know, if Kyrie plays a good game, maybe Ill have breakfast with him. ... We went to their [last tuneup] game. Theyre a great bunch. Weve always had a great relationship with the mens team. We practice in the same facility, we share the boat, usually share the same hotels. They support us, we do the same. Everybodys just a basketball fan. We have the mutual respect of playing basketball together.Once we get down here, its all about Team USA.After the U.S. women played three tuneup games against Canada, France and Australia the last two weeks -- all teams that Taurasi says the U.S. expects to be there at the end of medal-round play -- Taurasi said she and her teammates are ready to go.Olympic head coach Geno Auriemma agreed. The U.S. begins play Saturday against Senegal, and Auriemma, who coached the U.S. to the 2012 gold medal, said, Ive never had a team thats better prepared or more eager to get started. ' ' '