Sydney ruckman Kurt Tippett and defender Callum Mills have been ruled out of the Swans AFL semifinal against Adelaide and are no certainty to play any further part in the clubs campaign if they advance beyond next weekend. Tyler Boyd Jersey .Tippett suffered a non displaced hairline fracture to his jaw and Mills a grade one hamstring strain in Saturday nights qualifying loss to the GWS Giants.In pointers to their potential replacements, defender Jeremy Laidler and ruckman Toby Nankervis were withdrawn from the Swans side which contested Sundays NEAFL grand final.The seniors have got a game next week and its only smart to pull some of your best players out so they are ready for next week, Swans reserves coach Rhyce Shaw said after his teams four-point loss.Tippett, who was playing just his third match back after an eight-game layoff following hamstring surgery, will consult a specialist on Monday to determine the best course of action.Rising Star winner Mills, who had played 21 of 23 games this season, suffered the lowest grade of hamstring strain, offering him a little hope of him playing again if the Swans stay alive beyond next weekend.Another possible replacement for Mills, 21-year-old Zak Jones, suffered a blow to his chances of playing when he was stretchered off in the final quarter of Sundays game after suffering a head knock.The medical staff will look at him and weigh up what happens in the morning, but he seems OK, Shaw said.Sydney didnt really have the luxury of also withdrawing Jones from the NEAFL decider.He had only played one NEAFL game last week after missing the Swans final six home and away round matches with an ankle injury.Jonesy only played the one game previously and he probably needed the run, Shaw said.Im sure he would have been up for selection next week.Laidler was an emergency for Saturdays match and started the Swans first 12 games of the season, but hasnt featured in their past nine AFL fixtures.He would appear to have the advantage over Jones and veteran key position player Ted Richards, who might have made his final appearance for the club on Sunday, if he cant break back into the senior side before the end of the season.Richards, who is retiring at the end the season, hasnt played a senior game since round 17.Nankervis has played six senior games this year. 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I think its important they have an appreciation for that when they put that uniform on.A lot of credit has been given to the 1996 team , which started the Americans string of gold medals. But the list Callan is referring to starts with names like Nancy Lieberman, Pat Summitt and Ann Meyers Drysdale. Summitt, who died Tuesday morning , wore No. 14. In Rio, that number will be worn by former UConn standout and New Liberty center Tina Charles.USA Basketball, which plans to honor the 1976 team during exhibition games before the Rio Olympics this summer, only uses jersey numbers 4-15. FIBA recently lifted that limitation though USAB continues to use just those numbers.Lieberman, Meyers Drysdale and Summitt were part of a group of college players who 40 years ago participated in the first womens basketball tournament at the Olympics in Canada and won the USAs first medal in the sport -- a silver.The United States, currently on a 41-game Olympic winning streak, was not expected to qualify for the games in 1976.The national team had finished eighth in the world championships in 1975. The U.S. was not assured a berth in the Montreal Games until two weeks before, when they won a qualifying tournament in Hamilton, Ontario.To prepare for the Olympics they were given a budget of $500 and the use of a personal credit card belonging to Bill Wall, the executive director of what would become USA Basketball.We were lucky we had uniforms, said Meyers Drysdale.Guard Sue Rojcewicz said the team practiced at the University of Rochester, where they stayed in dorm that was under construction and had no air conditioning. They trained three times a day. When they got to Montreal, the coaches would get them up at 4 a.m. to practice, because their first game against Japan was at 9 a.m.As a joke, Rojcewicz said, the players once showed up to the gym in their pajamas.One time we showed up in shower curtains and fins aand goggles, she said. Josh Malone Jersey. The coaches made us play like that for about a half hour.But all of that created a bond, the players said.They developed a style built around a fast pace, ball movement and pressure defense.They lost the Olympic opener of the five-game round-robin tournament to Japan and lost another game in the tournament to the dominant Soviet Union, the eventual gold medalists. But they beat Bulgaria and Canada. That set up a must-win game against Czechoslovakia to earn silver.Lieberman, now an assistant with the Sacramento Kings, said Billie Jean Moore -- coach of that 1976 team -- told the squad before the game that what we do today will impact the next 25 years. And she was right.The game was tied at halftime, before the Americans pulled away to win by 17 points.We threw that press on in the second half, said forward Gail Marquis. I remember Nancy Lieberman. Truly, I really think she jumped over somebody or she fouled somebody with her knees or her ankles, she was jumping so high.Meyers Drysdale said she understands that a silver medal today would be considered a disappointment. But 40 years ago, it was an amazing achievement.When we realized we won our medal, we just all flopped on top of each other like a pile of puppies in a kennel or something, said forward Mary Anne OConnor.Marquis said once she had that medal around her neck, she kept it there. She now wears it on a silver chain.Not too often do I take the medal off, she said. I like for people to see it.Before the players could receive their medals, Lieberman was selected for a random drug test, but had a problem providing a sample with some standing over her.I finally was able to go to the bathroom, and America has not been the same since, she quipped.Callan agrees, saying the win was bigger than that group or that year. 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