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RIO DE JANEIRO -- With the late-afternoon sun shining on his shaved head and the round mountains of Rio de Janeiro behind him, Dorian van Rijsselberghe of the Netherlands stood in his coachs boat, smiled and flashed the hang loose sign with each hand.Van Rijsselberghe had just clinched his second straight Olympic gold medal in windsurfing. He still has to sail in the medals race on Sunday. Barring some kind of disqualification, itll merely be a victory lap before he collects his medal on the podium on Flamengo Beach, with Sugarloaf Mountain as a backdrop.For the second straight Olympics, he made it look easy.Man, can this Dutchman fly across the waves.Its unreal. I did it in London and I never expected it to happen again, said the 27-year-old van Rijsselberghe, who spends considerable time living and training in the Southern California sunshine. That it did happen again is just unreal.Britains Nick Dempsey clinched the silver. Its a repeat of the top two spots in London.The Dutchman and Briton congratulated each other after the 12th race of the series ended on the Atlantic Ocean.Van Rijsselberghe had finishes of first, first and sixth -- his lowest of the regatta -- for 23 points. Dempsey went 5-7-8 for 44 points.The bronze medal will be decided Sunday.Dempsey won three of the first four races to lead the first two days. Van Rijsselberghe won the third race and then took over, winning six of the final eight races.I was very fortunate that Nick went off like a cannon the first couple of races, because it really showed me, OK, its not going to be easy, van Rijsselberghe said. We never thought it was going to be easy, but he showed me that if you really want this, youll have to work for it. I tried, I worked for it, and I got it.Van Rijsselberghe spends considerable time in Laguna Beach, California, with his wife, Sasha, and their young daughter.The winds better in Newport, a little bit further up, and especially Long Beach, he said. The lifestyle is amazing there. The people are nice, theres mountain biking, surfing, good food, healthy. Sunshine. I like the sunshine.Van Rijsselberghe shaved his head for the second straight Olympics.Its a great excuse at the games, so my wife will allow it, he said.Does it make him go faster?No, not really, he said. Its a nice feeling. I like it. But not all the time.There were other big developments all over the boat basin.Evi Van Acker of Belgium, the first competitor to report falling ill during the games from sailing on polluted Guanabara Bay, had finishes of 12th and second as the Laser Radials returned after a day off. The defending bronze medalist, she jumped from 10th overall to seventh.Im doing better than two days ago, she said. I think I had a good day off yesterday. I was able to rest up and get some more energy. Today I had a 12th and a second so I gained some places in the overall ranking so Im pretty happy with that. Also, the conditions were a little bit lighter and not as physical as two days ago so that was good for me.Her coach believes Van Acker contracted a severe intestinal infection while training in Rio de Janeiro last month.In the mens Laser, 43-year-old Robert Scheidt went 4-5 to put himself solidly in podium position with two races to sail before the medals races. Scheidt is trying to become the first sailor and first Brazilian to win six Olympic medals. He has 50 points and is second behind Tonci Stipanovic of Croatia, who has 47 points. 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PAUL, Minn. -- With the new franchises prospects on the ice in front of them at the teams first rookie camp, Minnesota Wild general manager Doug Risebrough sat down next to director of hockey operations Tom Lynn and asked for an initial assessment.The good news was veteran coach Jacques Lemaire looked energized in his return to the NHL bench for the 2000-01 season.The bad?Well, hes got the best shot out there, Lynn quipped to Risebrough.Such was the state of a first-year team, pieced together with experienced players the rest of the league didnt need and newbies with largely unfulfilled potential. The Wild that season had plenty of Casey Stengel moments, Lynns label in reference to the manager of the 1962 New York Mets. They lost 120 games in their Major League Baseball debut.The Wilds first edition wasnt that bad, but they finished 14th out of 15 teams in the Western Conference. That was one spot behind the Columbus Blue Jackets, who with the Wild were the last clubs to enter the league until the recent award of a franchise to Las Vegas.Next year, that yet-unnamed team will build a roster from scratch, just like the Wild and Blue Jackets did 17 years before them. Not only will Las Vegas be the first addition to the NHL in 17 years, but it will become only the third new club since then in any of the countrys four most prominent professional sports leagues. Houston joined the NFL in 2002, and the NBA added Charlotte in 2004.Las Vegas will have some advantages over Columbus and Minnesota, which followed Nashville (1998) and Atlanta (1999) in the previous wave. The salary cap floor, for one, has risen to $54 million. Columbus general manager Doug MacLean had a $17 million payroll to work with on his first roster in the pre-cap era.The advent of analytics has given front offices more tools with which to evaluate players. Theres a higher caliber of prospects reaching the league now, too, fueled by elite skills camps and national development programs.Youre not going to have someone slip through the cracks where youre going to be rolling your eyes and going, `Oh, howd he end up in camp? said Lynn, who was promoted to assistant general manager after two seasons with the Wild and held that role for nearly seven years. Hes now a player agent. Rather than avoiding potholes, your fight will be to avoid mediocrity.The Blue Jackets and Wild also had to fight with each other. With two teams starting simultaneously, the expansion draft poool was further diluted.ddddddddddddThere were very few players you really wanted, MacLean said, adding: It was a fun process to go through, but at the end of the day you get your list and you say, `Oh, this is it? This is it for $80 million?Thats what the fee was for those teams to join the league. The price tag for Las Vegas is $500 million. Thus, MacLean said, its only fair that the new franchise will start with a stronger talent base.Columbus grabbed left wing Geoff Sanderson, a 30-goal scorer that first season, but netted little else from the expansion draft. In a nontraditional hockey market like Columbus, Blue Jackets brass felt pressure to win faster. They didnt make the playoffs until their eighth season, though, and have only qualified twice.Minnesota, fueled by a states rich history of high school and college programs and pickup games on frozen ponds, took a different tack. Patience was expected from a passionate fan base that lost the North Stars to Dallas in 1993. Complementing top draft picks Marian Gaborik and Nick Schultz, Risebrough focused on hard workers who would respond to Lemaires stern, wise leadership.Having good character players was of the highest importance, Lynn recalled, more important than their physical skills.Darby Hendrickson, a native of Minnesota, had finished his sixth NHL season with Vancouver when he found out the Wild picked him. Fishing by himself at his lake home up north, he had some initial hesitations. The pressure of playing at home was one. The rather dim outlook was another.You dont know with expansion if youre going to be, like, losing every game, said Hendrickson, whos now an assistant coach for the Wild.Hendrickson, fellow center Jim Dowd and defenseman Filip Kuba were among the players fetched in that expansion draft. By year three, they were part of a resilient team that reached the Western Conference finals.Even in that uphill first season, highlights werent hard to come by. The Wild beat Dallas 6-0 in their first matchup against the states old team. The first exhibition game brought a goosebump-inducing standing ovation that still resonates with Hendrickson.I was just like, `Here we go, Hendrickson said, and you knew that the state was going to be behind hockey being back.---AP Sports Writer Stephen Whyno in Washington contributed to this report. ' ' '