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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Channelling nerves and fear into a positive force isnt easy but Adam Peaty, like so many great champions, has become an expert at doing it.The Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth 100 metre title holder used to feel sick when he made finals. Now the pressure spurs him on.As I got more experienced and more mature, I kind of developed myself into a fight or flight [person] -- and Ive fought every time, he said after his successes in Brazil.And the transformation has been such that Peaty was described as a real thrill seeker by his family, someone who enjoys being on the edge.His pride and joy at home is his Mercedes AMG A45 sports car -- loud and very fast, according to girlfriend Anna Zair - and the boy who couldnt stand frightening films has turned into a man who loves thrillers.I dont get into the car, said mum Caroline. I did it once after a meal and I begged him not to drive fast -- he frightened the living daylights out of me.Peaty, then, clearly has a need for speed, and his swimming has been giving an indication of that for a while. But when he chooses to relax by forcing himself to cower on the sofa, he has taken it to another level.Adam likes to watch horror films, Zair said. Our favourite film is The Conjuring. Its the scariest film I have ever seen. It kept him awake for a few nights. Im fine, its Adam clinging on to me. He is the one who is terrified of them.His mother added: Adam used to hate horror films. He used to get pinned down by his brothers to watch them. One time he was watching the Exorcist and one of us came into the room and it scared the living daylights out of him.Perhaps the adrenaline junkie has always been a part of Peatys make up, he just needed someone to bring it out of him.His coaches have done that, working hard with him on his mental approach over the last couple of years. The way his ability to stand strong has spread to other aspects of his life suggests there will be no slipping back, no faltering in the face of fear for this impressive British champion.That was certainly the case when he took gold on Sunday and those who have tutored him can take a great chunk of credit again.Bill said something really vital to me, Peaty said, referring to British Swimming head coach Bill Furniss. He just said burn the boats. So you imagine doubt was a boat, you burn it and then attack.That phrase is exactly what Mel [Marshall, his City of Derby coach of seven years] said to me before the race and I knew exactly what it meant -- get rid of all doubt and then attack with everything youve got.The adrenaline Peaty seems to enjoy so much would have been one of the reasons he got just 30 minutes sleep in what remained of the night after he won gold.He has some time now before he competes in the 4x100m medley, which starts Friday, and the only challenge facing him other than his preparation, is how to compete with nan Mavis, who has become a social media sensation during the Games.Adam has not spoken to Mavis [yet], his mother explained. But he was quite peeved about the Twitter. It took Adam ages to get over 6,000 followers and Mavis got them over night! Pánské Basketbalové Boty Adidas . The Islanders dealt Thomas Vanek to the Montreal Canadiens after less than a year on Long Island. 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Speaking to the Chicago Tribune at baseballs Winter Meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Boras called the former home of the Expos a "tremendous environment" for baseball. Yorkshire 256 for 9 (Lyth 88, Coles 3-39) beat Kent 245 (Stevens 54, Blake 50, Plunkett 4-52, Willey 3-34) by 11 runsScorecardThere is an old cricketing saw that if you want to know how good a pitch is, you need to wait until both sides have batted on it. Like most proverbs, this is a useful saying only when used carefully; trotted out uncritically, it is tripe. This close and noble match, which ended with Yorkshire looking forward to a home semi-final against Surrey, illustrated the point.Between the two innings, as a St Lawrence ground which had brimmed with afternoon sunshine gave itself over to the gentler grace of evening, Kents supporters had reason to be optimistic. A Yorkshire side containing seven Test cricketers had managed no more than 256 in their 50 overs, a good score to be sure but self-evidently not the 300-plus the home fans may have feared.Kent skipper, Sam Northeast, may even have half toyed with notions of a Lords final. That would have capped a great season for the still youthful-looking Northeast, who has scored runs for the fun of doing so in the Championship. He has also been appointed club captain in succession to the slightly aldermanic figure of Rob Key. Sam Weller has taken over from Mr Pickwick.Eighteen overs into their innings the mood in the home dressing room was probably considerably less sanguine. Although 64 runs had been scored, four prime wickets had been lost, including that of Daniel Bell-Drummond, leg before to a David Willey yorker in the second over and Sam Billings, lbw on the front foot to Steve Patterson when he had made a mere single. Sandwiched between these dismissals, Northeast had gone, too, when he chipped a catch to Gary Ballance at midwicket.Thus did one Old Harrovian send another packing, although this very posh dismissal was moderated a little by the involvement of the bowler, Liam Plunkett, he of Nunthorpe Comprehensive. Maybe we should have known then that it would be Plunketts night, just as it had been against Essex at the same stage of the same competition a year earlier. Faced with Kents grim situation, Darren Stevens and Alex Blake resolved to die with their boots on and their magazines empty, if necessary. The fifth-wicket pair took 61 runs off the next seven overs, most of the damage being done to the spinners, Adil Rashid and Azeem Rafiq, both of whom were lifted for sixes into the crowd sitting in front of the mustard-coloured crane on the Old Dover Road side of the ground.The pair had added 86 in 13 overs when Blake was caught behind by Jonny Bairstow for 50 when attempting to pull a bouncer from Plunkett but only edging a catch. Nevertheless, the later Kent batsmen took their cue from this stand and it needed some outstanding cricket from Plunkett to prevent them winning the game.Northeasts men needed 109 off 20 overs when Blake was out and the rate was not to drop much above or below five an over for the rest of the innings. Crucially, of course, though, wickets were to fall, the first of them that of Stevens, whose leading edge was clutched one-handed with supreme athleticism by the diving Plunkett. Will Gidman gave the same bowler a much easier return catch two overs later but Kent battled on and the crowd warmed to themMatt Coles took a four and two sixes off a Rafiq over before being stumped off a Rashid googly - his foot raised just for an instant, but exposed by Bairstows fast work.Charlie Hartley and James Tredwell maintained a rate of five an over and 37 were needed off the last 48 balls. YYorkshires bowlers became nervous, then irritated.dddddddddddd But with only 16 needed, Hartley was leg before to Rashid and his 29-run stand with the calm Tredwell was ended. Then a borderline lbw for Willey finally killed Kents chances when 12 runs were required, 13 balls were left and most in the 6000 capacity crowd were beginning to think that, just for once, hope was not going to betray them.All this floodlit tension followed a Yorkshire innings which had been dominated more by accumulation than the artillery which Blake and Coles favoured. Although Adam Lyth hit two fours and a straight six in his first 15 balls, the boundaries were not to flow with comparable frequency until the final over of the innings, when Rashid drove successive balls from Mitch Claydon to the Nackington Road for four and over midwicket for six. Claydon had been the early sufferer, too, when he pitched the ball up rather too far to Lyth, who rarely passes up such pleasant opportunities, especially when the deep field is as empty as a gamblers wallet.But this early fun more or less marked the end of the visitors big shots. After Alex Lees had pulled Claydon straight to Blake on the square leg boundary, Lyth and Joe Root added 90 for the second wicket in 19 overs by pushing the ball into gaps, working it around and scampering twos.Roots innings exemplified the few problems Yorkshires batsmen encountered on this pitch. Englands finest batsman is so well balanced at the crease that he is almost incapable of inelegance, yet the accuracy of the Kent attack and the apparent slowness of the wicket prevented him playing any of his straight drives or signature back-foot forces. Instead he and Lyth were content for the most part to milk Tredwell, the off-spinner conceding 52 runs off his ten overs.Root and Lyths partnership was by far the best of Yorkshires innings. Three other pairs added 27 runs apiece, a statistic which itself rather reveals the absence of rhythm in the visitors innings. The batsmens problems were caused - some would say merely exacerbated - by the accuracy of Kents bowling. The pick of the attack was the medium-pacer, Hartley, who was playing just his fourth List A game and will dine out on his removal of Root, well caught at deep midwicket by Blake for 45, and Bairstow, who drove too soon and chipped a catch to Bell-Drummond when he had only 9 to his name.Although Gidman later removed Tim Bresnan and Willey in the same over, the latter departing to a contentious leg-side catch by Billings when the ball appeared to have hit only the pad, the most successful Kent bowler was Coles. Like Chaucers Miller, a stout carl for the nones Coles has plenty of pace and perhaps more variations than is sometimes assumed. Ful byg…of brawn, and eek of bones he may be but there is craft there, too, and in this game, it was sufficient to account for Lyth for 88 when edging a drive and both Plunkett and Rafiq late in the piece. Coles finished with 3 for 39 and maybe he, too, was pondering spending a September Saturday in St Johns Wood as he ate his tea.Instead it will be Yorkshires players who have that chance when they play Surrey in a semi-final at Headingley a week on Sunday. Having set up one semi-final Lees and his players can now travel to Edgbaston to play in another. Kents players were left with deep disappointment and the ink-blue glory of a Canterbury night. ' ' '