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HARARE, Zimbabwe -- The African with the most Olympic medals is one of the great distance runners from Kenya or Ethiopia, right?Nope.Its a swimmer from Zimbabwe.Like Michael Phelps, Kirsty Coventry is going to the Olympics for the fifth and final time, and shes swimming for one more little slice of history in the Rio de Janeiro pool.Phelps has the all-time Olympic record with his medal haul of 22, but Coventry needs one more podium finish at her last Olympics to be the first female swimmer to win eight individual medals.Its not an arbitrary stat. It underlines how Coventry, from a southern African nation with very little Olympic success (apart from hers, that is) has done it all by herself. No help from relay teammates to boost that medal count.Zimbabwe has won eight medals in total at the Olympics, and seven of them have been provided by Coventry, the two-time gold medalist in the 200-meter backstroke. The countrys only other medal is a womens field hockey gold won during the boycotted 1980 Games in Moscow.Shes already Africas best at the Olympics. As for the other mark, Coventry is level on seven individual swimming medals with Hungarys Krisztina Egerszegi. Rio is the last chance to edge ahead of Egerszegi. Coventry is 32, on her way out, knows it, and can make light of it.Whos the swimmer to watch at the Rio Games?Me! she responded.Joking.In all seriousness the field of swimmers is so strong right now, its crazy, Coventry wrote in an email exchange. I remember saying how strong it was in London (in 2012), but Rio will be even more so.Of them all, Coventry rates Americans Camille Adams and Katie Ledecky highest.Camille Adams ... she will get you out of your chairs when she is racing. And then there is Katie Ledecky. She will blow your mind. They are the whole package: hard working, competitive, confident, talented, beautiful and filled with positive energy and kindness.Coventrys been pretty good, too, basically representing her country at the Olympics single-handedly over the last 16 years, and ending up with more Olympic medals than any other African athlete. In the pool, too, not on the running track, normally the most fertile ground for African athletes.Making the Olympic team is a huge accomplishment, going to five Olympics is incredible, she wrote. But winning this number of medals in a sport that is not strong in Africa is unbelievable.Like Phelps, she made her Olympic debut as a teenager in Sydney in 2000. And theyll finish at the same time. In Rio, Coventry will focus on her favorite race and the one thats brought her two Olympic golds, the 200 backstroke. Shes also qualified in the 100 backstroke and 200 individual medley.Is there one more medal in there somewhere? Itll be tough. She didnt manage to get on the podium in London four years ago.Coventry grew up around swimming and the Olympics. She remembers watching the 92 Games in Barcelona on TV and telling her parents she wanted to go to the Olympics. She went to the Sydney Olympics while still at high school. She broke through in Athens with the first of her back-to-back Olympic titles. She went to Auburn University in Alabama, winning NCAA swimming championships while she studied. She was desperately grateful for an Olympic scholarship that helped her prepare for Beijing. She also broke the world records in the 100 and the 200 backstroke.Makes sense, then, that she stays around sport and the Olympic movement. Coventry is now a member of the International Olympic Committee and serves on the IOC and World Anti-Doping Agencys athletes commissions. She has clear opinions on the big issues affecting the Olympics right now.On the Russian doping scandal, Coventry said: This is a huge embarrassment for Russia and the Russian authorities are responsible ... there is a higher level of dishonesty at play. This is a warning to any country, coach, parent and athlete that is doping or considering doping: it does not matter who you are and it may not happen today, but you will get caught, and you will become an embarrassment to your friends and family.And on the Zika virus and the problems it has presented for the Rio Olympics, Coventry said she never once considered skipping the games. Brazil are going to put on a great show. Its going to be an awesome Olympics with some outstanding performances and I cant wait to get there.Onto the last Olympics for Africas best Olympian and, ideally, one last medal. 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Each of Houstons starters scored in double figures as the Rockets improved to 2-0 against the Spurs this season, with both victories coming on the road. They also moved within 3 1/2 games of San Antonio (22-7) for the lead the Southwest Division. NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Cleveland quarterback Cody Kessler stood at the podium talking about the best game of his very short NFL career and started tearing up.Its been an emotional couple of weeks for the rookie.Kesslers younger brother wound up hospitalized with a racing heartbeat days before the quarterback was knocked out of last weeks 33-13 loss to the New England Patriots with an injured chest . Then Kessler learned his great-grandmother had died, a woman he considered a second mother.The third-round pick out of Southern California got a break Sunday on the football field where he threw for a career-high 336 yards in his fourth start, nearly rallying the Browns before losing 28-26 to the Tennessee Titans.Kessler became only the third Browns rookie to throw for at least 300 yards, second only to Brandon Weedens 364 yards passing Dec. 2, 2012, at Oakland.Tennessee sacked Kessler six times and hit him five other times, but Kessler never flinched as he kept trying to rally the winless Browns (0-6).Unless they force me to stay out like they did last week, Im not coming out, Kessler said. It was a little painful, but at the same time you want to do it for the guys as well. Its not for myself, its for the guys around me.Talking to reporters after the game, Kessler said he couldnt come out of a game, not with his brother, Dylan, dealing with a heart condition that hospitalized him before the Patriots game.The condition will keep his brother from playing high school football or much of anything for two months and hell be wearing a heart monitor.Kesslers great-grandmother died a week ago, a woman he was so close with that the quarterback considered her as another mother.Its stuff that you cant control and youve just got to move on, Kessler said as he choked upp and then walked out of the interview room.ddddddddddddThe Browns are off to their worst start since 1999 when they lost their first seven as an expansion franchise. Kessler, their third quarterback to start and among five to play already, gave them a chance late at an improbable rally.He threw two touchdown passes to Terrelle Pryor Sr., the second with 2:07 left, before guiding a nine-play drive for another TD that set up a second onside kick.Hes battling his butt off out there, Browns left tackle Joe Thomas said. There were a couple times where he took some really big hits scrambling on fourth down trying to make plays and youre thinking, `Wow, he wont be able to get up from that, and (he) pops right back up and gets right back in the huddle like nothing happened. And thats really admirable.Kessler had a 105.3 passer rating while driving the Browns on a 75-yard drive and a 62-yard drive to rally Cleveland after trailing 28-13. Kessler also threw incomplete under pressure on a 2-point conversion.Still, Cleveland coach Hue Jackson said the rookie played hard.He gave us a chance to win, to be in the game, Jackson said.Pryor made it clear he loves playing with Kessler and the rookies passion, especially with all the hits the quarterback took.Hes a warrior, Pryor said. Thats what pushes us all. I took a little hit as well and it makes you just keep pushing. He was getting creamed, man, and he just got up and kept fighting. The kid has unbelievable heart. Im a big fan of his.---Online:AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/AP-NFL---Follow Teresa M. Walker at www.twitter.com/teresamwalker ' ' '