managed to beat 2012 London Olympics gold medallist Jared Tallent

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Sabres coach Ron Rolston added NHL experience to his new staff by hiring Joe Sacco on Tuesday. Sacco is a former NHL player who spent the past four seasons as the Colorado Avalanche coach before being fired in April after the team missed the playoffs for a third straight year. Sacco had a 130-134-40 record and was an NHL coach of the year finalist in 2010 after leading the Avalanche to the playoffs in his first season. In May, Sacco coached the U.S. national team to win a bronze medal at the World Championships in Sweden. Rolston described Sacco as an ideal fit because of his coaching experience and familiarity with teaching young players, as he had done with the rebuilding Avalanche. And Rolston had to remain patient in waiting for Sacco, who had been a candidate for at least two NHL head-coaching vacancies. "Once those opportunities passed, it was a situation where -- at that point -- he was obviously a no-brainer to bring in and talk to," Rolston said. "In terms of what we had here and the direction we were going, we thought hed be a perfect fit." The Sabres are in transition by rebuilding through youth. Rolston is part of the teams transformation. He took over as interim coach in February after Lindy Ruff was fired. He was then hired on a full-time basis in May after closing the season with a 15-11-5 record. Saccos hiring fills one of two openings in Buffalo after Rolston fired both bench coaches, James Patrick and Kevyn Adams. Rolston intends to hire one more assistant, while confirming hes retained two assistants, Teppo Numminen and goalie coach Jim Corsi. Rolston and Sacco have ties to USA Hockey, but have never worked together. Sacco was a forward during 13 seasons in the NHL before retiring in 2003. Drafted by the Maple Leafs in 1987, he finished with 213 points (94 goals, 119 assists) in 738 career games split between Toronto, Anaheim, the New York Islanders, Washington and Philadelphia. Earlier in the day, Sabres general manager Darcy Regier indicated he wasnt prepared to make a major splash once the NHLs free-agency period opens Friday. He is instead interested in targeting veteran role players who would be able to complement Buffalos young lineup. "Our focus is going to be on supporting this younger group," Regier said. "It means fit. And the fit may be positional, it may be character, it may be to add some scoring." Regier remains noncommital as to whether he intends to trade his two star veterans, goalie Ryan Miller and forward Thomas Vanek. Both players are entering the final years of their contracts, leaving their futures uncertain in Buffalo. "Its incumbent upon me to have a sense of what the marketplace is or re-sign them, versus allowing them to become unrestricted and just have very good assets walk out the door," Regier said. "It would be fair to characterize that Im actively finding out what the marketplace is." ---- NOTES: After an up-and-down rookie season, C Mikhail Grigorenko can expect to play all of next year in Buffalo. Though the 2012 first-round draft pick is still eligible to play at the Canadian junior level, Regier said he intends to have Grigorenko develop with the Sabres. ... Regier said D Alexander Sulzer will become a free agent. ... The Sabres will hold a three-day rookie development camp in Buffalo next week. Air Max 90 Ingrosso .R. Smith realized how easily basketball can be taken from him, and he wasnt going to take his place in the NBA for granted anymore. Air Max 95 Scontate . Scott Kazmir allowed four hits in seven shutout innings, Michael Brantley hit a two-run homer in a three-run first inning and the Indians maintained their hold on an AL wild-card spot with a 4-1 win over the Houston Astros on Saturday night. http://www.airmaxoutletscontate.it/ . Louis. 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The mens team had earlier clocked 3:02.24 to finish seventh in the heat and 13th overall, but post a review, got disqualified for improper baton pass.Earlier in the day, Khushbir Kaur came close to breaching the national record set by her at the Asian Games two years ago before settling for the 54th position, finishing the 20 km walk in 1:40:33 in Rio de Janeiro on Friday. The other Indian in the fray, Sapna Punia, did not finish the race, dropping out after the 8km mark.Elsewhere, Sandeep Kumar finished 34th in the mens 50km Race Walk event,?clocking 4:7:55, which was 26:57 behind the gold medallist Matej Toth of Slovakia. At the half-way mark, Sandeep was 48th with a time of 1:59:13, which was almost ten minutes behind the leader.Khushbir, who won a silver medal at the 2014 Incheon Asian GGames after clocking a national record time of 1:33:07, was 43rd after the 2km mark among a field of 74 athletes before completing the 6km mark with a timing of 28:04.ddddddddddddhinas Hong Liu who finished with gold with a timing of 1:28:35 for the most part, looked in serious contention of surpassing the existing Olympic record of 1:25:02, set by Russias Elena Lashmanova at the London Games.Clocking 1:09.00 to complete the 14km mark, Khushbir was handed a warning for a bent knee before she finished the remaining 6kms 11:58 behind the leader Hong.In the mens 50km event, world champion Toth managed to beat 2012 London Olympics gold medallist Jared Tallent of Australia into second place with a time of 3:40:58.Toth, 33, moved past the Australian in the latter stages of a race. 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