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Danny Wicks has ignored Parramattas NRL season from hell to re-sign on a two-year contract extension.The drama-plagued club on Thursday continued their signing spree with the 30-year-old prop inking a new deal which will keep him at the Eels until the end of 2018.We have a strong playing group and locking in members like Danny ensures we can build towards 2017 and beyond with confidence, coach Brad Arthur said.It comes on the back of Arthur and playmaker Corey Norman re-signing until 2019, with Kenny Edwards expected to re-sign shortly.The Eels are facing yet another rebuild after a year filled with scandal including the salary cap saga, Norman being found guilty of drug possession, skipper Kieran Foran quitting the club to address personal problems and winger Semi Radradra being charged with domestic violence offences.Despite a season of negative headlines and press scrutiny, Wicks said there was something special building in Sydneys west and he wanted to be part of it.I am stoked to be seeing my career out with Parramatta, Wicks said.It was a no-brainer. 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Custom Jets Jerseys . -- Anaheim Ducks captain and leading scorer Ryan Getzlaf has been scratched from Sunday nights game against the Vancouver Canucks because of an upper-body injury. Custom Quinnen Williams Jersey . -- The goal posts lying flat on the field, Arizonas fans lingered on the field, congregating around the locker room entrance nearly 30 minutes after rushing out of the stands. She remembers the match well. She was 18. Scrawny. Wide-eyed. At her first Olympics. She wasnt meant to have come this far. She had no business beating the world No. 5 Wang Chen along the way. But she had. And now, against world No. 16 Maria Kristin Yulianti of Indonesia, she had won a marathon first game 28-26.It was the quarterfinals of the 2008 Olympics. Yulianti soon drew on all her experience to level the contest against the world junior champion from India. Game three and Saina Nehwal took an 11-3 lead. Ten more points and she would be in the semi-finals -- within touching distance of a medal.And then, just like that, in a matter of minutes it was over. Yulianti overturned the deficit and built a substantial lead of her own. Saina would return home empty-handed, but an ambition had been sparked -- to one day be called an Olympic medallist.That Olympics gave me lot of fame, lot of recognition, she says. People got to know who Saina is and (that) shes doing really well in badminton. Of course I lost the medal, but that gave me a lot of confidence that yes, I can win a medal in the Olympics.Four years later in London, the dream was realized. The gawky teenager from Beijing had transformed into a formidable force. She had won a clutch of big titles and risen steadily up the rankings. Saina versus China, the headlines exclaimed as she challenged the dominance of the foremost badminton nation in the world.In London, Saina won her first four matches in straight games before running into Chinas Wang Yihan in the semi-finals. She lost in a one-sided contest and was left in a play-off for the bronze against another Chinese, Wang Xin. Saina lost the first game but fortuitously; her opponent was forced to concede with an injury.At 22, Saina had become only the second Indian woman after weightlifter Karnam Malleswari to win an Olympic medal.In Rio, Saina will begin the competition as one among a group of about half-a-dozen players capable of clinching gold. Though her ranking has slipped to fifth, the difference in points separating the top players is marginal and in recent months no one player has dominated the circuit.Under the eagle eye of coach Vimal Kumar, besides achieving optimal fitness, the thrust over the final phase of preparations before the Olympics haas been on tactical subtleties against specific opponents.dddddddddddd Some players such as Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei have been massive stumbling blocks for Saina. Ying has won the last six matches between them, going back to 2014 and holds an 8-5 advantage in their head to head. So perplexed is Saina by Yings play that she has described her as a mystery and a puzzle.Other potential banana skins lurk as well. The 2012 Olympic Gold medallist Li Xureui leads Saina 12-2 in their head-to-head encounters. World No. 1 Carolina Marin has won some big tournament finals against Saina in recent years and Thailands Ratchanok Intanon has also been a persistent stumbling block.Well aware but undaunted by the ferocity of competition she faces, Saina is exuding an air of confidence as the Games approach. Much of her belief flows from a healed body after battling a niggling ankle injury for months. Forced to stay away for the first few months of the year, Saina has built momentum gradually since returning to the circuit at the All England Championships in March, where she lost in the quarterfinals to Ying.In the tournaments that followed, Saina consistently reached the quarterfinal and semifinal stages before making a timely breakthrough at the Australian Open Super series in June. By clinching her last pre-Rio competitive tournament -- where she conceded only one game in five matches, including two over higher ranked players -- Saina confirmed her form, fitness and pedigree ahead of the Games.I take each tournament as it comes, she says. Rio Olympics will also be like any other games. My approach to the game is very positive and I would like to keep it like that and focus on my game. I feel that on the day that I am 100% fit, I have the potential to defeat anyone.There has been a neat symmetry to Sainas Olympic forays so far. At Beijing, she made a muscular announcement to the world of her ability. In London, she strode deservedly on to the podium as one of the leading players in the world. Perhaps Rio will be remembered as the time she basked in the golden glow -- that determined little pint of a girl, who wouldnt settle for anything less. ' ' '