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He hit the ground running at Brisbane pre-season training after overcoming his own hamstring concerns.Now veteran playmaker Benji Marshall insists he can help improve Brisbane pivot Anthony Milfords running game.Marshall, 31, on Monday impressed by winning the 1.5km time trial at his first official Broncos session since signing a one-year deal.He showed no sign of the hamstring dramas that sabotaged his 2016 season with the Dragons and almost left him on the NRL scrapheap.Thrown a lifeline by Broncos coach Wayne Bennett for 2017, Marshall admitted he was worried how his legs would hold up in Brisbane.He played six weeks of touch footy, helping Western Suburbs win the Sydney Mens Premier League title last month.I was a little bit worried about (hamstrings) to be honest but playing touch football at the highest level really tested that out and I got through unscathed, Marshall said.Thats all I did to be honest (after the 2016 NRL season).After the year obviously I wanted to give my mind a break mentally and also physically.Marshall also worked with Wests Tigers physio and old mate Peter Moussa before driving to Brisbane last Friday.Now confident in his own legs, Marshall said he would help Milford focus on his.Milford this year showed glimpses of the form that helped Brisbane make the 2015 NRL grand final.This is my 15th season. I think I can help with experience and calming nerves, Marshall said.I dont think he (Milford) is too dissimilar to the way I played.I think if I can give some advice it is what I have lost in the last couple of years - dont be caught being the ball player.Play to your strength and I think that is his running game.Marshall befriended Milford at the playmakers former club Canberra while visiting ex-Wests Tigers teammate Bronson Harrison a couple of years ago.I have known Milf for a long time. I just admire the way he plays, Marshall said.I thought last year (2016 season) was one of his best years - the first half of the competition.Marshall renewed his friendship with Milford at Broncos training on Monday where he was joined by fellow Brisbane newcomers David Mead, Mitchell Dodds and Tautau Moga. Cheap Baseball Jerseys Authentic . 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According to a report from the Vancouver Province, the Lions are expected to replace former DC Rich Stubler with defensive backs coach Mark Washington. RIO DE JANEIRO -- Usain Bolt tilted his head backward and screamed. He plaintively raised his palms to the sky, tugged hard on his shirt, then angrily ripped the No. 6 sticker off his right hip.It had the look of an unthinkable loss in the Olympic 200 meters. But theres only one opponent that can really beat Bolt: time.The Jamaican superstar romped in what he says is likely his last Olympic individual race Thursday night, but finished in 19.78 seconds, .59 short of his own world record, the one he said he really wanted to break.I wanted to run a faster time, said Bolt, who turns 30 on the night of the closing ceremony. I knew it was going to be hard to break the world record, because I could tell by my legs. When I came off the corner, my legs decided, Listen, were not going to go any faster.Hard to argue with a win, though, and Bolt has Olympic gold medal No. 8, and a third straight 200 title to go with the same trifecta in the 100. His run for gold No. 9 comes Friday in the 4x100 relays.All good stuff. But that expression as he crossed the finish line told the real story.Bolt was leading before those legs on his 6-foot-5 frame had even powered him through the first curve. The field chased him through a thin mist that started about 30 minutes before the race. Andre de Grasse of Canada (20.02) finished .24 behind, and Christophe Lemaitre of France (20.12) squeaked out bronze by .003 over Adam Gemili of Britain. You couldve driven a truck through the gap between first and second place.Way up ahead, Bolt gave every ounce of effort, his arms pumping hard, face twisted with pain and effort as he hugged the left edge of his lane and approached the line. There was no hot-dogging or celebrating early as was his wont in some of his best 100s.He glanced to his left to check out the clock. The time came up: 19.78. Not even the fastest 200 run of the season. When Bolt saw it, the reaction looked more like that of someone whod lost than won.All I wanted to do was win the 200 meters one time, he said, dismissing the notion he was disappointed. So, to be eight-time gold medalist is shocking. Just proves Ive worked hard.As always, the after-party was great.With chants of Usain Bolt, Usain Bolt ringing out across a mostly full stadium, Bolt paraded around the track with his Jamaican flag while Bob Marleys One Love blared in the background. The once-in-a-lifetime sprinter dropped to his knees and kissed the track before giving his iconic To The World pose.His record in his favorite race still stands, though, at 19.119.dddddddddddd. He set it in 2009 at world championships in Berlin, breaking the mark hed set the year before (19.30) when he burst into the Olympics in Beijing.In the run-up to Rio, Bolt had even suggested he could break the 19-second barrier -- who will ever do that now? -- in the race he has always called his baby. Its the sprint he worked on from the very beginning. His coach wanted him to double in the 400, but that went out the window when he set his first world record in the 100 meters about two months before the Beijing Games.So, the 100 was his hobby, the 200 was his day job, and when he started talking about goals for these Games, he said immortality was the main one.What else can I do to the world to prove I am the greatest? Im trying to be one of the greatest. Be among Ali and Pele, Bolt said after the race. I hope after these Games, I will be in that bracket.Hes there already.Hes a championship man, hes an unbelievable guy, Lemaitre said. And he has nothing to prove now.But, oh, how that 200 record beckoned.Why didnt it happen?There was a hamstring injury that forced him out of his national championship and reshuffled the schedule in the lead-up to the Olympics, though he looked no worse for wear in capturing the 100 four nights earlier.There was that lightest coating of rain that glistened off the track, though there has long been debate about whether a bit of moisture can help or hurt with speed.There was the semifinal the night before, when de Grasse quite brazenly made Bolt work all the way to the line to capture the win. Thanks to de Grasse in the semifinals, I was tired, Bolt said.And, of course, he isnt 21 anymore.De Grasse is, and after the act he put on the night before, it was clear he had it coming. He got it. But his silver-medal finish -- .10 ahead of Lemaitre -- goes well with the bronze he took in the 100 and may pronounce him as the next great sprinter once Bolt leaves the scene.In the lead-up to the Olympics, Bolt insisted the time is approaching. He plans to compete at the world championships in London next summer and has said that will be it.But first, Friday night, and a chance to make it three sweeps over three Olympics, the likes of which we may never see again.Ive proven to the world Im the greatest, he said. I really put Jamaica on the map. Ive really got people taking a look at where the talent is coming from. Ive done all I can do. 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