RIO DE JANEIRO -- Rallying from 18 down in the third quarter is big in any game. Doing it in the Olympics is pretty special. Guard Kia Nurse put on an impressive show to spark Canadas comeback in womens basketball on Monday, showing she is nearly completely healthy in just her fifth game back from surgery.Very healthy indeed.She scored 25 points off Canadas bench as the Canadians rallied to stun Serbia 71-67. Nurse, who had sports hernia surgery after helping the UConn Huskies win a fourth straight national title in April, came through with the Canadians needing someone to start making shots.I said after the game, `Welcome back, Canada coach Lisa Thomaidis said. Tremendous effort. Shes such a competitor, theres no one tougher out there. When the games on the line when your team needs someone shes going to step it up and you certainly saw that today.The Canadians (2-0) needed Nurse, a guard who will be a junior in coach Geno Auriemmas UConn program this fall. She had 10 points in the first half, and added nine more in the third to start the scoring for the Canadians with 5:52 left in the third and her team trailing 52-34.Nurse said she feels really good with the pain in her groin all gone. That allowed her to attack the basket and knock down a handful of jumpers.This was a game we really wanted to win, Nurse said. When we play in desperation mode, which we were playing in today, were really, really good.Nayo Raincock-Ekunwes three-point play put Canada ahead to stay, 68-67 with 48.4 seconds left, to finish off the amazing rally. With fans chanting Ca-na-da through much of the fourth quarter as Canada simply smothered and outscored Serbia 26-10 in the fourth quarter.Thomaidis called it a massive win coming against last years European champion.Really proud of this team, the Canadian coach said. We knew the game plan. We didnt execute it in the first half. We got back to it in the second half a little bit more. Had to switch some things up completely since we werent doing them. Give the team credit for executing down the stretch. We hit some big hoops when we needed to.Nurse drove to the basket then passed out to Miah-Marie Langlois for the clinching 3 with 8.7 seconds left for her fifth assist.Serbia (0-2) will regret this missed opportunity in its Olympic debut, especially after some ugly turnovers in the fourth quarter in the face of Canadas defensive pressure. Jelena Milovanovic scored 19 points, and Sonja Petrovic had 15. Ja Morant Jersey . It is a cliché dragged out by fans and pundits regularly when discussions take place around which teams are better than others. Darko Milicic Jersey .Y. -- Sabres forward Drew Stafford has witnessed plenty of turmoil during his eight seasons in Buffalo. https://www.cheapgrizzlies.com/754p-bruno-caboclo-jersey-grizzlies.html . 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That promise was broken just more than a month ago, when the committee requested a bailout from the city of Rio de Janeiro and the federal government to run the Paralympic Games.Levy, speaking on the final day of the Paralympics, said, We committed ourselves to hosting the Games without any public funds, but during the journey, there were a lot of ups and downs that led to the overrun.The operating budget is for running the Games themselves and does not include roads and stadiums built to prepare the city. In a conservative estimate, Rio spent between $10 billion and $12 billion in public and private money readying the city -- much of the private money lured in by tax concessions and favorable loan terms from government lenders.Levy, who promised early in his term to run an operating committee free of corruption, said the final figure for the operating budget was $2.8 billion. He said the final government contribution would not be more than 1 percent of that.The dollar-denominated budget number has fluctuated over the years because of wide swings in that currencys value against the Brazilian real.The Rio organizing committee received a last-minute reserve fundd of 150 million reals ($45.dddddddddddd9 million) from the city of Rio de Janeiro. Levy said he expects to use about two-thirds of that fund.Brazils federal government also came up with another 100 million reals ($30.6 million). This comes in the form of sponsorships from three state-run entities, including the scandal-plagued oil company Petrobras.Levy said he does not regard the sponsorships as government money, although organizing committee members acknowledged they lobbied Brazil president Michel Temer for the outlay.This is a right Petrobras has to purchase this sponsorship as many other privately owned and other state-run companies do, Levy said. It is not government money that could be used for other things. Its their advertising money.Levy then added: By the way, they paid very little for it. It was very cheap for them.Levy said the annual salaries for its eight top directors would be available at the end of the year. The Brazilian newspaper Estadao reported last month the eight were paid an average of $25,000 per month in 2015.Levy also said the audit results of his budget would be made available.We follow the rules of all private companies that are listed on the stock market in Brazil, Levy said. Our [financial] statement cannot be doubted because they are audited and published. I insist on that. ' ' '
