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SUZUKA, Japan -- After Lewis Hamilton suffered another slow start at the Japanese Grand Prix, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has admitted the cars clutch has its flaws.The British driver took the blame for his poor getaway at Suzuka, but after three other similarly poor starts this year, Wolff was willing to admit the problem was not entirely Hamiltons.The clutch, obviously, is not perfect. We are giving it to them and it is difficult to handle, he said. We have tried to optimise that but our first assessment was that it didnt function well on the clutch release -- dumping the clutch -- but that is obviously an oversimplification. It is a complex system to deploy and that didnt function today.New clutch regulations were introduced at the start of the year to make starts more unpredictable, but teams have all worked on ways to improve consistency. Mercedes poor starts have often been more obvious than others because at least one of its cars has started from the front row at every round this season.Wolff confirmed the clutch is bespoke to the Mercedes -- even Force India which uses the same gearbox has a different one -- and admits that the system, although good when it works, has its pitfalls.I have never driven the clutch, so I can only tell you what we analyse. It is difficult to handle the clutch in the right way and both drivers have worked on that, going as far as changing the way the glove has been done to release it.This is just one aspect on how it goes, how you release it and how you build the revs, and that is very complicated, then there is the random factor of getting all of that right and that is not always very easy with the clutch.The poor start could not have come at a worse time for Hamilton after he retired from the lead of last weekends Malaysian Grand Prix and missed out on pole position by 0.013s to teammate and title rival Nico Rosberg in Japan. By starting second, Hamilton was on the damp side of the track and Wolff said that may have also played some part in the poor start.The damp line was of course a problem for anyone who was on the right side [of the grid], you can see that also Daniel Ricciardo also didnt get the start right, he lost a position. 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Rose tore the meniscus in his right knee at Portland in November and was ruled out for the remainder of the season by the Bulls. Adidas NMD Greece . -- Catcher Brett Hayes has agreed to a $630,000, one-year contract with the Kansas City Royals, avoiding salary arbitration. JOHN SAUNDERSNEW YORK -- John Saunders, the versatile sportscaster who has hosted ESPNs The Sports Reporters for the last 15 years, has died, the network announced. He was 61.Saunders joined ESPN in 1986. The Canadian did play-by-play, led NHL Stanley Cup and World Series coverage on ESPN and ABC, and hosted studio shows for baseball, college football and college basketball.A cause of death was not announced.Saunders took over as host of The Sports Reporters, a Sunday morning staple of ESPN programming, after Dick Schaap died in 2001. Saunders played the role of calm traffic cop on the panel show that features three sports journalists volleying opinions on the top sports news of the day.Saunders was also a founding member of the board of directors for The V Foundation for Cancer Research, a charity started by the network after former college basketball coach and ESPN announcer Jim Valvano died of cancer in 1993.OLYMPICSRIO DE JANEIRO -- Military police in Rio de Janeiro are stepping up security at the Olympics after a bus carrying journalists had two of its windows shattered by a projectile and a bullet flew into the stables area of the equestrian venue.Two large windows on the media bus were shattered Tuesday by what Rio organizers said was a rock. But a passenger disputed the account, saying she was sure it was gunfire. There were no serious injuries.Security has been a major concern surrounding the Olympics as Rio is plagued by rampant crime, including frequent murders, gun battles and muggings. Police near the Olympic beach volleyball venue in Copacabana found body parts on the shore last month, and an off-duty bodyguard for Rios mayor was shot to death around the same time in an apparent mugging. Adding to the anxiety is terrorism fears about the Islamic State.Rio is deploying about 85,000 soldiers and police to secure the games, twice as many as London did four years ago. Soldiers in military fatigues and carrying guns have been a common sight around Olympic venues.RIO DE JANEIRO -- It seems everywhere you turn in track and field right now theres bad news.Two days before the track competition starts at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, IAAF President Sebastian Coe said that hes not confident there will be full crowds.Are we going to have full houses? I dont know the answer to that, Coe said.The Rio crowds could have given Coe a rare positive to highlight in a news conference that was almost completely about the negatives: Doping, banned athletes, previously banned dopers being able to compete in Rio, and what the IAAF is doing tto change the way it works after 12 months that rocked the sport and its governing body to the core.dddddddddddd Along with the huge doping scandal in Russia -- Coe called it cataclysmic -- corruption crept into the IAAF, too, under former president Lamine Diack.RIO DE JANEIRO -- Justin Gatlin, the sprinter considered the best threat to stop Usain Bolt in the 100-meter final Sunday, told The Associated Press hes not paying attention to what people are saying about him, and is not concerned with those who think he doesnt belong here because of past doping scandals.At the end of the day, the time has been served. Ive served that time, the 34-year-old Gatlin told AP on Wednesday. Ive dealt with that punishment. Ive moved forward.Gatlin, who won gold at 100 meters at the 2004 Olympics, has been caught using banned substances twice. The first was for amphetamines, though arbitrators determined he didnt use them for doping but to treat attention deficit disorder. The second came for excessive testosterone in 2006 and resulted in a four-year ban.His name almost always comes up in the debate over how past dopers should be treated. In Rio, it surfaced in the wake of American swimmer Lilly Kings finger-wagging display toward Yulia Efimova, the Russian who was allowed to compete after a last-minute appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.Like Gatlin, Efimova has served a doping ban but was reinstated.Gatlin does not see himself as a villain -- and does not buy into the now-hackneyed portrayal of him vs. Bolt as tracks version of Good vs. Evil.People want to label people and thats all they want to do, Gatlin said. They dont want to get to know them, they dont want to understand the story, in-depth.BASEBALLARLINGTON, Texas -- Prince Fielder will not be able to come back after a second neck surgery.The Texas Rangers slugger choked up and shed tears as he said health issues are forcing him to end his 12-season major league career. He was still wearing a neck brace 12 days after his second cervical fusion in just over two years.The 32-year-old Fielder says its going to be tough not being able to play again after being around the majors since he was a kid with his father, Cecil, a slugger who played 13 seasons for five different teams. Princes two young sons sat with him, also shedding tears.All of his Rangers teammates, along with coaches and staff, filled the interview room at their home ballpark to support him. ' ' '