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Injured javelin thrower Kim Mickle is adamant her dodgy shoulder will be able to hold up to the rigours of Aussie Rules footy after signing on to play with Fremantle in the AFLs new womens league. Hydro Flask Heureka .Mickle underwent surgery last month after dislocating her reconstructed right shoulder while competing at the Rio Olympics.But in a shock move, Mickle has joined Fremantles new womens team on a rookie deal.The 31-year-old is still planning to defend her Commonwealth Games gold in 2018 on the Gold Coast.In the meantime, she wants to make a name for herself in Aussie Rules.Many experts are wondering how Mickle can play football after undergoing two rounds of shoulder surgery within the space of a year.But Mickle said her recent surgery was different to the first one, and would actually allow her shoulder to stand up to the rough and tumble of football.Its the same as what Nat Fyfe had done, and he was playing after 12 weeks of his surgery, Mickle said on Wednesday.The reason why we did the first surgery with anchors was to keep flexibility in the shoulder for a javelin throw.But as everyone saw in Rio, it didnt hold my shoulder in place when it came to the crunch time.So weve now opted for the (different) repair, which will make a stiffer shoulder, but a stronger shoulder.In terms of footy, thats brilliant. In terms of contact, its no dramas.Mickle says even if she loses 10 per cent of range in her shoulder by choosing the different type of surgery, it wont have much of an affect on her javelin throw.The two-time Olympian has little experience playing footy, having been forced by her parents to give up mixed football as a junior for fear she would get injured.It was just a bit rough for the boys with me being in their team, Mickle joked.But despite forging a successful athletics career, football has remained a big passion for Mickle.I warm up with a footy in hand all the time, Mickle said.Im always kicking around with the boys.Ive got a good boot on me. Ive got some good hands on me.In terms of getting off the ground and up, thats the bit where Ill have to do some work.Fremantle also signed WNBL title winner Gabby OSullivan as a rookie, while Ebony Antonio and Kirby Bentley joined as priority selections.The inaugural womens league season will run from February to March next year.Mickle is confident shell be ready to play by round one.Fremantle werent the only ones to get into the Olympic spirit, with basketballer Erin Phillips signing with Adelaides womens team.Phillips is a dual Olympian and is playing for the Dallas Wings in the WNBA in the United States. Hydro Flask Termoska . With Parker having a quiet game for once, Nicolas Batum and Boris Diaw provided the scoring as France won its first major basketball title by beating Lithuania 80-66 on Sunday. It was a victory that ended a decade of frustration for Parker and a talented French generation, which lost the final against Spain two years ago and took bronze in 2005. Hydro Flask Cena .ca! Kerry, Two nights after the Scott-Eriksson incident in Buffalo, the Bruins returned home to play San Jose. In that game, Zdeno Chara put a check on Tommy Wingels that clearly targeted his head. http://www.hydroflasklahev.cz/ . -- Former San Diego Chargers safety Paul Oliver was found dead at his Atlanta-area home Tuesday night, and a medical examiner said Wednesday that the ex-player committed suicide. Throughout the Tour de France, Australian professional cyclist Richie Porte will be checking in. Here is his first entry, as told to ESPN contributor Rupert Guinness:Stage 1: Mont Saint Michel to Utah BeachSeeing Alberto Contador sitting in the gutter by the side of the road after he crashed in the first stage of the Tour de France on Saturday -- and every rider who fell in the opening day of racing -- showcased what is at stake after having spent so much time preparing for the race.The stage, from Mont Saint Michel to Utah Beach in Normandy, was sketchy for the peloton. But thats how it often is on the first day of a Tour that has a road stage like Saturdays. Id prefer it started with a prologue time trial. That would have created some order before the first road stage as the winners team could control the race a bit to defend the yellow jersey.When the Tour starts with a road stage that is raced on narrow roads with plenty of roundabouts, the odds of there being a crash rise so quickly. With the cross winds blowing, there was also going to be some sort of drama.So ... after seeing Alberto down, I wondered, Why do we race on roads like that? ... [We] come into that corner [from a roundabout] so fast when there is hardly any warning, if any at all.I hate to say it, but I believe Sundays second stage from Saint L? to Cherbourg-en-Cotentin will be much of the same. Any Tour start is nerve-racking, but it is not made any easier by some of the roads we are using. And Sunday will be on narrow roads with road furniture, which makes it quite dangerous. It even feels like its a luck thing ... to come out of this first week without any major issues will require a lot of that.What happened to Alberto showed what price it might take. Fortunately, it seems he will be OK; but it is not good to see anyones Tour compromised by an accident. It was the same on Saturday for my teammate Brent Brookwalteer and Luke Rowe (Sky), who also came down in the same crash as Albertos. Hydro Flask Cz. Crashes aside, for the sprint finish, won by Briton Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data), I was in quite good position. I was up there when the crash occurred and was lucky to avoid it.It was a good end for me, even though it might not go down as one of the most memorable, unless you are Cavendish with 27 stage wins in his Tour career.It was still quite a hard stage. The pace was on, and then, when we got into the cross-wind section, a few teams tried to split up the peloton. In such a situation, you are always covering breaks. Its one of those nervous stages where you concentrate the whole time. Normally, the good art of that is you sleep well, a great thing on any grand tour.But it is still great to have the stage behind us. It at least feels the Tour has finally started.I have to be honest ... when you are sitting around in your hotel room for days before the Tour starts, the mind does wander ... where you are at, where your form is at. You start to ask all the questions. The show that is the Tour can get to a rider. But I believe that when you are at your best when you to try to focus on the race as if it was just another one of the lead-up races.All the races we do are super hard and super stressful. Sure, at the Tour, seeing the massive crowds makes it that bit more dangerous. It becomes harder to move up because you dont really want to move too much on the sides because there are people everywhere. But then, without the people on the roads, where would the Tour be today? That the crowds can be so close to the race -- and the rider -- still makes the sport, let alone Tour, unique.Having a passionate crowd that loves cycling is great, as I believe the next weeks will show. ' ' '