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Stand-in Brisbane captain Andrew McCullough has urged his teammates not to rely on their returning State of Origin stars to bring an end to their spiralling NRL season.Four losses in their past five games has seen the Broncos slump to sixth on the ladder - their lowest spot of the year - and be in danger of falling out of the top eight.In fact, since five Brisbane players were a part of Australias shutout Test win over New Zealand in early May, the 2015 grand finalists have won just two of eight matches.Their most recent match, a 48-6 humiliation to Melbourne, was their heaviest defeat in club history.Four of the six Maroons who lost to NSW in Origin III on Wednesday are set to back up for Saturdays clash against South Sydney, with skipper Corey Parker suspended and Matt Gillett (shoulder) in doubt.However McCullough said it would be dangerous to rely on a post-Origin switch to rectify their campaign.You think guys are going to come back in and just make it happen but overall its a team performance from 1-17 that needs to pick their act up from the last two months, he said on Friday.Were confident we can do that, weve got a great squad and weve been relatively injury-free.Assistant coach Stephen Kearney was adamant that wasnt the attitude the team was carrying into the match.All the little things we were doing earlier on in the year - regardless of Origin - we stopped doing those over the last month or so. Thats going to be our focus tomorrow night, he said.Jordan Kahu is set to push to centre, with Alex Glenn expected to enter the fray for Gillett in a shuffled line-up that includes Lachlan Maranta added onto the wing.For the Rabbitohs, skipper Greg Inglis is also out after accepting a three-game ban for his shoulder charge on NSW centre Josh Dugan that resulted in a broken jaw.His suspension is a huge blow to the 12th-placed Rabbitohs, who need to win seven of their final eight regular season games to hit the traditional 28-point mark and make the finals.Rookie flyer Tautalasai Tasi is expected to replace Inglis in the backline for a South Sydney side that includes George Burgess for the first time since round nine and has lost five straight games.The Broncos defeated the Rabbitohs 30-8 back in round eight.STATS THAT MATTER* The past four, and five of the past six, matches between these two sides in Sydney has resulted in a points total of at least 48.* Brisbane average a league-low 22.7 plays inside the opposition 20-metre zone this season, while the Rabbitohss 23.4 is the second lowest.* The Broncos have failed to score a point in the opening 20 minutes of five of their past six matches. 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Evelyn Stevens burst into professional cycling with an irresistible backstory, an ideal engine for endurance and -- as she was always quick to mention -- the very rawest of bike-handling skills.?Shell end her career seven years later at the world championships tucked into the precise formation of one of the sports top teams in its most technical event.?Stevens, 33, never could have imagined the topography of the path from her former desk on Wall Street to Sundays team time trial in Doha, Qatar.?Hooked after entering a cyclocross race on a whim, Stevens signed up for a road cycling clinic in New Yorks Central Park in 2008. The following year, she quit her job in investment banking, sold or gave away most of her possessions and began pedaling toward parts unknown.?She signed her first pro contract before the 2010 season and learned racing from the ground up, sometimes literally. Along the way, she carved out an identity as one of the most versatile riders in the peloton: a time trialist and climber as well as an intrepid super-domestique who helped other riders close out victories.I rode for the best teams, with the best women and the best equipment, Stevens said from Nice, France, where she was training for worlds last week. Theres no event that I didnt do that I wanted to do. I didnt accomplish all of my goals, but I got the chance to go after them.?A two-time U.S. individual time trial champion and double world championship time trial medalist (silver in 2012, bronze in 2014), Stevens also won the prestigious La Fleche Wallonne one-day classic and several stage races around the world. But her distinction was as a rider who drew her own finish lines.?In 2014, frustrated by the arbitrary length restrictions on womens stage races, she devised her own Grand Tour, stringing together 17 consecutive race days in Europe starting with the womens Giro Rosa and continuing with Germanys Thüringen Rundfahrt, which she won.?Last February, Stevens set a new womens hour record -- covering 47.980 kilometers in the allotted time -- in Colorado Springs, an accomplishment that drew 50,000 viewers on a livestream. She still cant believe that many people wanted to watch her ride around in circles.?Looking back on it, it was insane I even thought to do that, she said. Im gonna go out and ride for an hour, close to 48k, have everybody watching me -- pretty much all you can do is fail. Now Im so proud of it, as I get farther away from it. Proud of the result, taking that risk, the experience, the people around me who helped me with it. Its a lovely process to get to these goals.?It was a process Stevens knew nothing about as a wide-eyed newbie whose only prior team experience was as a tenacious baseliner on the Dartmouth College tennis team. She was initially stunned that teams employed someone to fill her water bottles and do her laundry, but she got used to it.?Other adaptations came a lot harder. It took years for Stevens to feel comfortable in the tight quarters of the peloton. She forced herself to fight crosswinds and navigate wet roads, but bad-weather riding was never her strong suit. She refiined her descending skills by following young superstar Taylor Phinney on the roads around Boulder, Colorado -- part of the Phinney familys larger embrace that included mentorship and a second home.dddddddddddd?Stevens carved careful tracks down the ski slopes of her youth rather than schussing down at full speed. Much about road cycling remained a mental stretch for her naturally risk-averse personality. Every day I got on the bike, I was facing fears, she said.?Those fears came partially to fruition in March 2013, when Stevens crashed heavily on a traffic circle in a race in Italy. She suffered a concussion and required 40 stitches and some dental work to reconstruct one of the most contagious smiles in cycling.?Stevens had a quiet Olympics in Rio. She rode valiantly in support of Mara Abbotts heart-cracking fourth-place effort in the road race, but blustery conditions on the day of the time trial thwarted her quest for a medal in her second Summer Games.?She is leaving the sport with no regrets, including her late introduction to it. Stevens was comfortable in her own skin, if not always in the saddle, when she dedicated herself to cycling in her mid-20s. She knew she always had the safety net of a college education and work experience if things didnt work out.?Stevens success obviated the need for that exit strategy until now. Shes contemplating picking back up in the financial field, although she frets at the thought of a more sedentary lifestyle and already envisions fidgeting at a standing desk. Mostly, shes looking forward to more time in San Francisco with her husband of one year, Brett Baker, a program manager at Twitter.?I think what made me a successful bike racer and made me who I am on the bike is the fact that I started late, Stevens said. I had to really play catch-up. It made for some big struggles on the bike. Maybe if Id started when I was 15 years old I would have been more comfortable in the corners. But would I actually have gotten myself in that position??She automatically qualified for the road race in Doha, but declined the spot. Her farewell will come with the Netherlands-based Boels-Dolmans team in the team time trial, which is contested by trade teams rather than national squads. Stevens was a member of Specialized-lululemons three straight gold-medal lineups in the event from 2012 to 14 and would love to go out on another winning note with Boels-Dolmans, the 2015 TTT silver medalist.?Im prepping for the team time trial, but Ive stepped back and realized how intense that lifestyle can be, she said. I started to itch for something else, to try another challenge.?I know I could physically continue to compete at the top level for a lot more time. But I almost feel like Im getting comfortable and kinda have figured out how to do it, and thats when you need to go. I love riding my bicycle. Not one ounce of me is sick of riding my bike. Now, do I want to go with 200 women and [speed] down a small street in Holland? No. Im done. Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys Jerseys From China Wholesale NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys ' ' '
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