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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Hes a self-proclaimed miserable sod but five-time Olympic champion Jason Kenny now sits among a pantheon of knights and will find it increasingly hard to live in his comfort zone of flying under the radar.Kenny put together a stunning display of tactics and pace to beat his Great Britain teammate and Olympics Village flatmate Callum Skinner to individual sprint gold in the Rio Olympics Velodrome over two races on Sunday.Sir Chris Hoy, the six-time Olympic champion, was watching on from the stands in the velodrome, aware that on Tuesday a win in the keirin will see Kenny join him as Britains Olympic medal record holder.Kennys storming showing in the sprint, his second gold of the Games alongside Thursdays mens team sprint, now sits him second on the list alongside Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Bradley Wiggins on five but it is yet to sink in for Kenny.It is strange, to see him [Hoy] up there and his big head sticking out. People keep saying I have won five but I dont feel any different from the other day when I only had three, Kenny said. Its not sunk in yet.Ive still got the keirin to go. I probably wont let it sink in. Ill go back, relax as much as possible and hopefully give myself the best chance possible.Kenny, the only man not to be knighted but now mentioned in the same breath as Redgrave and Wiggins, will be looking to add another on Tuesday. History awaits but he doesnt expect it to lead to an influx of sponsorship money, nor will it change him as an individual.He recently said on BBC news he didnt have a personal sponsor because he couldnt compete with other pretty athletes from a marketing point of view. He doesnt expect this to change, but it doesnt bother the new five-time Olympics champion a jot.I wasnt meant to be moaning [on the news] its just a fact of life Ive come to live with, Kenny said. Im not very marketable which is fine, I cant help being a miserable sod.Ive just accepted that. I like flying under the radar a little bit and getting on with what I like doing which is racing.He did risk a smile though and the sheer joy at having taken another gold was written large over his face but there is a team feeling to this triumph for Kenny.Skinner, who was part of the gold-medal winning mens sprint team, chased him hard. The silver is a remarkable return for Skinner, who was unbeaten in Rio until he faced Kenny in what was his first individual Olympics or World Championship final.He is five years younger than Kenny and the five-time Olympic champion is predicting big things for him, but is now turning attention to Tuesdays keirin.I am really hit and miss, Kenny added. I could get a medal or bomb out in the first round. I need to focus on recovery and in the morning of the keirin I want to get stuck in.Despite the modesty, Kenny will fancy his chances of adding an incredible sixth gold to his tally. 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The money, yeah, cool, but depending on who you are, youre good as far as the money goes anyway because you know its going to keep coming. When you take somebody out of the game, I think thats harsher.Its not to say the league is shy about ejecting and suspending players. Since the start of 2016 through Week 7, 47 have been suspended a total of 219 games and docked more than $18 million, according to the website spotrac.com.But of those suspensions, the majority were for drug use or legal- and violence-related issues off the field. A four-game ban went to Tom Brady for Deflategate. And spotrac.com lists only one illegal-hit suspension -- for three games -- which went to Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict after his vicious hit to Steelers receiver Antonio Browns head in last seasons melee of a playoff game.Meanwhile, spotrac.com lists 55 fines handed out in 2016 for violations including impermissible use of the helmet, roughing the passer, and blindside blocks the likes of which Landry delivered to unsuspecting Aaron Williams of the Bills. Williams crumpled to the ground and had to be transported to the hospital. Those infractions resulted in the single suspension (Burfict) and an average fine of $16,500 in a league with an average annual salary of $1.9 million. Thats an average of 0.8 percent of a players salary.Maybe we need to look at our rules a little better, Bills coach Rex Ryan said after the hit on Williams. Maybe, having a guy who targets and deliberately does something like that, the right thing to do is to eject the player from the game and maybe part of another game.That is the rule in college football, which also can use replay to pass final judgment on the legality of a hit.After the hit on Williams, for which Landry expressed remorse, NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino told NFL Total Access it wouldve been a difficult call to eject Landry because its still a football play, and its tough to read intent there. He conceded we have few automatic ejections in the game today.The NFL did not make Blandino available to The Associated Press for this story. Instead it referenced a portion of the league rulebook that has been rewritten over the past few years to reflect its emphasis on curbing helmet-first, above-the-shoulders and other illegal hits that used to be celebrated but are now viewed in a different light.Ten years ago, when I came into the league ... the sky was the limit when it came to hits, said two-time Pro Bowl defensive back Michaeel Griffin of the Panthers.dddddddddddd You lived for hits like that.Griffin served a one-game suspension as a repeat offender of hits to the head while with the Titans in 2013, the first season of the newly toughened hitting rules. When asked this week to reflect on the suspension, the first words out of Griffins mouth were: That cost me too much money. That cost me $205,000.But he said the suspension helped change his outlook, in part because if you cant play within the (rules), theyll find somebody else to do it.The increased emphasis on technique and safety has undoubtedly played into the decline in fines for hits on defenseless players, which is one subset of the hits the AP reviewed as part of the spotrac.com numbers. The NFL says there were 40 such fines in 2012, and only 10 in 2015. Yet, the leagues ability to police the violence this season came under scrutiny as early as Game 1, when MVP Cam Newton received four hits to the head in the season opener against the Broncos, none of which resulted in penalty yardage.Darian Stewart delivered one of those hits, then one the next week to Andrew Luck. Hes been fined a total of $27,000 for the hits -- a tad more than 1 percent of his 2016 base salary.No suspensions.Newton has complained to the NFL, going all the way to Commissioner Roger Goodell to discuss. This week, Newtons coach, Ron Rivera, echoed Ryan, saying it might be time to crack down harder.Steelers defensive end Cam Heyward, the teams union representative, says the players would appreciate more clarity.Theres so many gray lines. Everybody is always waiting for someone, or what Goodell is going to say, Heyward said. If you have a set rule and a set amount and how its going to be addressed, I think youll see more clarity and youre not going to have to deal with those (questionable hits).The NFL has resorted to a more-direct approach before.In 2010, after a rash of helmet-to-helmet hits, the league made a midseason adjustment and put the possibility of suspension front and center in an emergency effort to halt the violence. Predictably, defensive players complained -- then, after a week that included $175,000 in fines, nobody was suspended.Since then, a total of 10 players have been suspended for illegal hits and other over-the-top physical play on the field, according to spotrac.com. Four of those suspensions, including Griffins, came in 2013. Another four have come over the past three seasons.One observer believes player safety is only one of a multitude of issues the NFL has to consider when it decides which penalties to levy.As much as the league wants and needs to get rid of dirty plays and players, they dont want to take actions that compromise, or even appear to compromise, the actual contests themselves, said Doug Hartmann , a sociology professor at University of Minnesota, who teaches a course on sports in society. Fines and such, in other words, have much less impact on actual games and outcomes than suspensions or expulsions.---This story has been corrected to fix the name of the website, spotrac.com.---AP Sports Writers Steve Reed in Charlotte, Will Graves in Pittsburgh and Mark Long in Jacksonville contributed to this report.---For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL cheap falcons jerseys cheap ravens jerseys cheap bills jerseys cheap bears jerseys cheap bengals jerseys cheap cowboys jerseys cheap lions jerseys cheap texans jerseys cheap colts jerseys cheap jaguars jerseys cheap chiefs jerseys cheap rams jerseys cheap dolphins jerseys cheap vikings jerseys cheap saints jerseys cheap giants jerseys cheap jets jerseys cheap eagles jerseys cheap steelers jerseys cheap 49ers jerseys ' ' '

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