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EUGENE, Ore. -- After advancing through the preliminary round of the mens long jump on Saturday, Marquise Goodwin said it was his dream to win an Olympic gold medal and a Super Bowl ring, both of which are very hard to attain.Thats especially true for Goodwin now. One, hes a receiver for the Buffalo Bills, who have never won a Super Bowl and havent been to the playoffs in 16 years. Two, despite having had the two longest leaps in the world earlier this year, he failed to make the U.S. Olympic team in Sundays trials final. Goodwin finished seventh with a jump of 27 feet, ? inches, more than a foot short of Jeffery Hendersons winning jump of 28 2 ? inches.At the time, its frustrating, but you really cant dwell on that, Goodwin said of not making his second Olympic team. Life is too good to harp on a situation like that. Maybe at the time I can be a little disappointed, but now Im alive, and there is so much more to look forward to.Such as the football season.Ill take a few days off, get my mind right and start getting ready for football, Goodwin said. Camp is less than a month away.Goodwin barely reached the final round and placed 12th of the 12 qualifiers Saturday. He said then that he wasnt worried about not making the team and pointed out that he made the 2012 U.S. team despite being 10th in the preliminary round at that years trials. However, he said Sunday that he was not feeling good.I strained my hamstring a little bit yesterday, he said. I did better than I expected today. I didnt expect to jump six times. I thought I would come in and do one jump. But after the first jump, I thought I would be pretty good. I just pushed through it. Thats the football part of me coming through.It wasnt good enough. Henderson won the meet, with Jarrion Lawson second with a 28 foot, 1 ? inch jump. Will Claye, the bronze medalist in 2012, was third with a jump of 27 feet, 7? inches, but since he did not have a wind-legal Olympic qualifier, he will not be on the team and Marquis Dendy will go instead.Carl Lewis has been critical of the long jump he dominated so long, but two jumps of 28 feet were impressive, especially because they were both longer than the gold medal jump at the 2012 Games.Carl, I hope youre happy now, Goodwin said ... Theyre jumping better now than they ever have before.Goodwin, who finished 10th in the long jump at the 2012 Olympics, said he has a couple more Diamond League track and field meets in which to compete before training camp.He isnt sure where his long jumping career will go from here, though. Would he consider working toward the 2020 Olympics?Who knows? Goodwin said. If God gives me the opportunity, Ill take advantage of it. Wholesale Ravens Super Bowl LII Jerseys .com) - The Pittsburgh Penguins placed forward James Neal on injured reserve Tuesday. 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Flamboyant. Not usually words youd associate with Chinas Olympic team.In Rio, however, a new generation of Chinese Olympians are breaking the mold and shaking up social media.Theres diver Qin Kai, who walked up to the podium with a ring and a rose to propose to his girlfriend He Zi during her Olympic medal ceremony. Was Qin a true romantic or an entitled man gatecrashing a womans big moment? It depends on your view. Whats certain is that his gesture would have been unimaginable even a few years ago.A swimmer who makes faces in interviews and doesnt know when shes won a medal, a table-tennis player who snoozes at the venue, a weightlifter with gleaming gold shoes and a tendency to celebrate prematurely all have made a splash in Rio.Chinese fans call them the mudslides, and they are changing the colorless mainstream.The success of Internet technology has forged a new generation of young Chinese athletes whose mind is much more self-centered, who really enjoy the game itself, who always talk of `me, in sharp contrast with older athletes, who are always ready to talk about `we, the collective interests of the Party and the nation, Beijing-based analyst Shi Shusi told The Associated Press.For decades seen as the humorless products of a state production line, Chinese athletes were ruthlessly on-message at the games, with the Communist Party and their coaches receiving the plaudits after every success, while athletes lambasted themselves for failures.Athletes from a new generation raised with social media and a growing focus on individual rights face looser restrictions on self-expression at the Olympics. Their fans increasingly denounce old-style statements of state loyalty as fake and demand authenticity. Even the Communist Party is getting on board.More expressive athletes have changed the single goal of our chasing after Olympic golds, have changed the stereotypes of the Chinese athletes but injected new meanings into Chinese sports, the partys civilization-building arm said in an editorial on its website.Queen of the mudslides is swimmer Fu Yuanhui, whose exaggerated facial expressions, pop-culture references and enthusiastic style in interviews have made her a darling of social media back home. Cartoons of Fu smiling and sticking her tongue out have gone viral on messaging apps as emojis, as has video of her finding out shed won bronze from a TV interviewer after shed blamed her short arms for letting her down.I never thought so many people could like me. It puts me under a lot of pressure, she said of her millions of new social media followers. Fu even broke a taboo by admitting she wasnt up to her best in a relay because she was on her period.In the normally staid world of weightlifting, Lyu Xiaojun brings Usain Bolt-style swagger. Wearing shiny gold shoes like those of the Jamaican sprinter, Lyu is a showman on the stage, with grins and little nods of the heads when he makes a lift, as if to say: I got this.ddddddddddddIn the past, nothing less than gold was good enough for China, but Lyu is more laid-back. Instead of being heartbroken to lose out to a Kazakh rival for gold on Wednesday, and even though hed started celebrating before the competition was over, Lyu was charitable in defeat. It was quite an honor to participate in an Olympic Games again. Thats one of the reasons I was smiling all the way, he said. Bashfully, he admitted his flashy footwear -- specially made by a friend who expected me to win gold -- no longer fit the occasion.Sometimes, the crowd-pleasing gestures go wrong. When Sun Yang celebrated his swimming gold medal, he tried to throw his cap to the crowd but flicked it into the pool and had to fish it out before trying again. Still, that didnt dampen the love from his fans.With Chinas sports marketing industry having gone through a revolution of its own in recent years, athletes who make a name for themselves can also expect greater endorsement opportunities if their personality resonates.Unlike older Chinese athletes who grew up watching only the team efforts of the state system, those in Rio also had individual stars like Li Na on the tennis court or Yao Ming in the NBA.Those two fought opposition within the state training system to play around the world and become the first Chinese athletes with a truly global profile. Lis candid style, deadpan delivery and willingness to share personal details made her a favorite with fans worldwide.After reaching her first Grand Slam final in Australia in 2011, there was no praise of the Party in her on-court interview, but plenty of mockery of her husbands snoring. I always wake up every hour, you know, she quipped, cementing her reputation as a goofy new star.Chinese fans on social media are turning their favorite athletes into superstars in the worlds most populous nation, but when angered theyre a force to be reckoned with.After a public feud between Chinese swim star Sun and Australias Mack Horton, who didnt hide his distaste at Suns 2014 doping ban, Chinese fans bombarded Hortons Instagram page with angry comments. When Rio organizers used an inaccurate flag for China, the fans ripped Brazilians as incompetent.There are signs that the new attitudes are spreading to once-rigid Chinese sports officials, too. 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