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Standing 7-feet tall and weighing 280 pounds, Andre Drummond is one of the most physically imposing big men in the NBA.Put him in a gym with 400 Special Olympics athletes, and the Detroit Pistons All-Star center turns into a little kid again.Drummond, 23, was named as the newest Special Olympics ambassador on Thursday, and he celebrated his new role by hosting a pep rally and basketball clinic in Detroit.Its a feeling you dont forget. Its a genuine look and genuine excitement, Drummond said with a chuckle in a telephone interview. They dont see me as just a basketball player, they see me for who I am and the amount of time and effort I put into being a supporter of the movement.Drummond was first introduced to Special Olympics as a rookie when he attended an NBA Cares event. From that moment on, he was determined to be as involved as he could in promoting the cause and working with the athletes all over the world.Just seeing how much they love the game and the excitement they had just drew me to them, Drummond said. Year after year I continued to do it, and I tried to be more involved, and now its kind of like that next level being an international ambassador.Drummond joins other high-profile ambassadors such as Michael Phelps, Damian Lillard, Yao Ming and WNBA star Elena Delle Donne.Andre has experienced firsthand how sports can build fitness, confidence and skills among Special Olympics athletes and how playing unified and being unified can break down barriers and help build respect and inclusion in every neighboring school and community across the nation, Special Olympics CEO Mary Davis said.Unified programs work to pair students with and without intellectual disabilities for education and sports.As much as Drummond enjoys playing basketball with those he met on Thursday, he said the real experience comes in the conversations and interactions away from the court.Anybody can shoot and throw the ball around, he said. 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The medical staff initially thought hed torn the ligament, and the test a day later in Cincinnati confirmed it.Australian cyclings flagship track program faces a searching review after Great Britain dominated for the third-straight Olympics.Gold medals to Laura Trott and her fiance Jason Kenny on Tuesday capped the British command performance at the Rio Velodrome.They won six gold medals - no other nation will take home more than one.Annette Edmondson fell out of medal contention in the omnium and Matthew Glaetzer did not reach the keirin final.That left Australia with only a silver and a bronze - just ahead of Anna Meares solitary silver medal at the Beijing Olympics.Australia came to Rio with realistic expectations of two or three gold on the track.There are strong medal contenders in BMX, which starts on Wednesday, but the discipline is notoriously unpredictable.Its not the week wed been aiming for, thats for sure, cycling team leader Kevin Tabotta said of the Australian track results.Well look at the good, bad ugly and what could we do different. Clearly one nation has got it more right than any other.While crashes and other misfortune have plagued Australian cyclings Rio campaign, Tabotta said there were no excuses.He noted that there were improvements on the track from the March world championships to Rio.But you need to be able to shift at a rate thats better than any other nation and for the most part we shifted with every other nation, he said.Clearly one nation moved ahead of the rest and made some pretty significant gains in a short period and we werent able to match that.ddddddddddddTabotta was adamant that Australian cyclings best athletes and coaches were in the Rio team.Our athletes are busting their backsides to be at the top level and so what we need to do is look a little bit deeper as to why we havent moved from March to August at the same rate, particularly as Great Britain, he said.On Tuesday, Edmondson won the 500m time trial and was second in the flying lap.That put her within four points of the silver medal.But she faded dramatically in the last event, the 25km points race, as Trott easily defended her Olympic title.She now has four Olympic medals, the most by a British woman.Glaetzer finished fourth in his second-round heat, also putting him out of the keirin medals.There were two re-starts in the keirin final before Kenny won his third gold medal in Rio and the sixth of his career.German Kristina Vogel defied the British domination to win an emotional sprint gold medal.She beat Katy Marchant in the semi-finals and then downed fellow British rider Rebecca James, the fastest qualifier, for the gold medal.Vogel beat James two heats to nil despite her saddle breaking in the home straight of the second heat. 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