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The sailing regatta at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics will be both filthy and photogenic.The troubled waters of Guanabara Bay have made news for the wrong reasons, with an independent study by The Associated Press showing high levels of viruses and sometimes bacteria from human sewage. There have also been unsightly buildups of trash.Sailors have tried to downplay the effects of sailing on the dirty water, saying theyre taking precautions and that Rio isnt the only place on the planet with polluted waterways.Still, German sailor Erik Heil was hospitalized in Berlin and underwent surgery to treat inflammation and skin infections after competing in a test event in August.One big improvement so far is at the venue, the new Marina da Gloria, where the water is clearer just months after a new sewage system was installed to stop brown, untreated sludge from being poured into the small harbor.Dirty water aside, sailors rave about Rio as a good place to sail, both on the bay and on ocean courses.This will be one of the rare times sailors have competed in the center of the Olympic action. The Christ the Redeemer statue and Rios round natural features will provide a stunning backdrop. The medals races will be sailed off Flamengo Beach, with the windward mark right under Sugarloaf Mountain.Here are some things to watch for in the Olympic sailing regatta:ITS THE WATER: Some sailors will end up in the water, particularly in the wild 49er class, which is prone to capsizing. You dont want to ingest the water, said New Zealand 49er skipper Peter Burling. Its not that different to what China was eight years ago. Obviously weve taken precautions with all the immunizations. You try to stay out of the water. U.S. sailor Paige Railey of Clearwater, Florida, has made several trips to Rio. She said shes even gone wakeboarding and swimming there, and has eaten fish from the bay. I dont have any fear about the water at all, actually, she said.ANY MEDAL WILL DO: At the 2012 London Games, the United States failed to win a sailing medal for the first time since 1936. Americas best medals bets for Rio are Annie Haeger of East Troy, Wisconsin, and Briana Provancha of San Diego in the womens 470; Stu McNay of Providence, Rhode Island, and Dave Hughes of Miami in the mens 470; and Railey in the Laser Radial. Haeger and Provancha won the gold at the Olympic test event in Rio in August. McNay and Hughes won the gold at the 2015 European Championships. Railey won the gold at the 2015 Pan Am Games. The United States leads the overall medals table with 59, although Britain has 25 golds to the Americans 19.THE STREAK: After winning the silver medal in London, New Zealanders Burling and Blair Tuke won 27 straight regattas, including four straight world championships. Their streak ended in mid-July when they finished third in the South American Championship in Rio. Their trans-Tasman rivals, Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen, the defending Olympic gold medalists, won that regatta, which featured just six races in two-days. The Olympic regatta will be sailed over a week. The Kiwis remain the odds-on gold medal favorites. Its not about the winning streak, Burling said earlier this year. Were not too worried about that. The last four years have been about trying to get a gold medal for New Zealand in Rio. Burling and Tuke (Emirates Team New Zealand) and Outteridge and Jensen (Artemis Racing) also are rivals sin the Americas Cup.THE HEIR APPARENT? The big story in the London Games was British hero Ben Ainslie rallying in the Finn class to win his fourth straight gold medal and fifth Olympic medal overall, making him the most-decorated sailor in games history. With Ainslie having moved on to the Americas Cup, countryman Giles Scott is the man to beat in the Finn, the heavyweight, single-handed dinghy class. Scott has 16 wins in 18 regattas this quadrennial, with two silvers.GOING AND COMING: The venerable Star class was dropped from the Olympic lineup for the first time since 1932. That didnt sit well with Brazilians. Torben Grael won two gold medals and two bronze medals in the Star class, and countryman Robert Scheidt won a silver and a bronze. Graels daughter, Martine, will sail in the womens 49er FX class, which has been added to the Olympic lineup, along with the Nacra 17 multihull. Graels son, Marco, will compete in the 49er class. Scheidt will sail in his sixth Olympics, in the Laser class. Quinnen Williams Jersey . With the first unit struggling of late and Amir Johnson - one of the teams iron men - hobbling on an injured right ankle, Patterson knew he could get the nod in a challenging matchup against one of the leagues up and coming players at his position. Jachai Polite Youth Jersey . A statement from the worlds top-ranked player says all checks "were satisfactory and showed positive evolution" regarding the injury, which contributed to his loss to Stanislas Wawrinka in the final in Melbourne. http://www.jetsrookiestore.com/Jets-Joe-Namath-Jersey/ . 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But amid injuries to Norris Trophy-winning defenceman Erik Karlsson, centre Jason Spezza and goaltender Craig Anderson, it was MacLean who held it all together as the Senators managed to make the playoffs. "For me it was important that I continue to set the expectations of the team at a high level but also be realistic about those expectations," MacLean said. "We had Erik Karlsson injured, we had Jason Spezza injured. We didnt have those two players playing in Binghamton. For us to expect someone to come up and be able to be those two players is not realistic and its not fair to the players. "We try to stay as real as we could game-by-game and give the players realistic expectations and a realistic way to play the game to have success." Despite losing Spezza for all but five games and Karlsson for all but 17, the Senators had success in the form of a 56-point season. MacLean credited captain Daniel Alfredsson, the winner of the Mark Messier Leadership Award, along with Chris Phillips, Sergei Gonchar and Chris Neil, for providing a veteran presence given plenty of adversity. When the injury bug started to become an epidemic for the Senators, MacLean first wondered, "Whos next?" Then, the 55-year-old did some impressive coaching. "Thats what good teams do is find a way to win," he said. "So we were challenged early in the season to find ways to win and I think our leadership group accepted that, and the quality of our young players that we were able to bring up accepted that." Ottawa won with Kyle Turris as its leading scorer and players like defenceman Patrick Wiercioch and forward Mika Zibanejad playing major roles. MacLean also credited Anderson for his impressive season, along with young goalies Robin Lehner and Ben Bishop. 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"I really understood the importance of playing good hockey on both ends of the rink," Toews said. "Since then I really worked on every little part of my game that I could." Beat by Toews for Selke, Bergeron still got an award Friday, given the King Clancy for his humanitarian work. Tampa Bay Lightning right-winger Marty St. Louis won his third Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct. St. Louis already won the Art Ross Trophy by finishing the 48-game season with an NHL-best 60 points. Ray Shero of the Pittsburgh Penguins was named general manager of the year, and Minnesota Wild goaltender Josh Harding, who battled back after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the off-season, got the Bill Masterton Memorial trophy for perseverance. On a much different scale, MacLean showed plenty of perseverance in getting the job as Senators coach. The long-time assistant wondered if he had passed the expiration date for becoming an NHL head coach. But experience kept MacLean from being "overwhelmed" by anything this season, and a berth in the playoffs provided validation that was only furthered by being coach of the year. "I just think that sticking to it and still believing in what I did as an assistant coach has helped me now that I get the opportunity to be the head coach," MacLean said. "This kind of gives us credibility that all those times when I was thinking that I could do this that now this kind of gives me the credibility that I was right, I could coach in the league." ' ' '