Leander Paes has admitted that losing in the opening round of the mens doubles at the Rio Olympics is a tough one to take, but believes he has it in him to challenge the human spirit and prolong his professional career till the Tokyo Games in 2020.Paes and his partner Rohan Bopanna went down 6-4, 7-6 to the Polish pair of?Lukasz Kubot and Marci Matkowski, bringing an early end to the 43-year-olds Rio campaign; Bopanna still has the mixed-doubles event with Sania Mirza to look forward to.?Paes road to Rio had not been smooth; Bopanna had initially chosen Saketh Myneni as his doubles partner, before the AITA overruled his request and picked Paes instead. The controversy took a new turn on Thursday when Indias Davis Cup coach and non-playing captain Zeeshan Ali said he was in the dark about Paes whereabouts, suggesting that he had had no contact with him of late.?Paes, though, offered an explanation, while also?dismissing suggestions that he and Bopanna did not have enough time to practice with each other.Theres a lot of he says, she says going around. I had mentioned to Zeeshan during the Davis Cup that Im playing a Challenger in Europe, and I won that challenger. I also mentioned to him that Im playing the World Team Tennis, he knew that, Paes told ESPN.?For me, the management, team and AITA always knew that I was playing matches coming into the Olympic. I was never supposed to be here on the 1st. I actually came here early to get some practice.Preparation is not about practice, its about playing matches. You can practice till the cows come home, but when youre under the gun, serving down break points or serving for the match, when youre playing pressure points, thats the best preparation for the Olympics.Paes felt that he and Bopanna were simply beaten by the better team and that the outcome of the match could have been different had one or two points gone their way in the second set.?As an athlete, my job is to make sure Im 100% ready when the bell rings, he said.?I served well today, I returned well. We played well as a team, but lost to a better, hotter team. If Rohan and I had got one or two more points in the second set, taking it to a third, the chips would have changed. Now were the fitter team.In sport, sometimes its easy to take potshots at someone when they lose or when theyre a soft target. You know that when youre playing on the pro-tour and winning games with confidence, when you come into an event with confidence, you bring that confidence into the team.With the Rio Games, Paes has now appeared at seven Olympics - a national record - but does he have it in him to make that eight in Tokyo? Especially with age and recent results not in his favour??His answer is emphatic.?It depends on perspective. I won three grand slams last year, and I won one this year. My tally is now up to 18. As far as some people might say my doubles ranking might have dropped, or oh hes 43, they dont understand what it takes to win one grand slam. As long as I can keep winning, I want to get to 20 Grand Slams.Four years is a long way away [for Tokyo]. I take it one day at a time. I had a tough one today. But the door is not closed. I want to enjoy the experience of an Olympics. 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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. Chinas team has been the talk of the Rio velodrome not just for their first-ever gold medal but the elegant portraits of historical and legendary figures on their helmets.In Rio, Chinas not the medal factory it used to be -- chances of beating the U.S. in the medal table are fading fast -- but it certainly has attitude.---Tang reported from Phoenix. John Leicester in Rio de Janeiro and AP news researcher Dong Tongjian in Beijing contributed. ' ' '