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The British Olympic Association is confident that the most talented team it has taken to an away Games can create history at the Rio Olympics. BOA officials expect to send a team of just over 350 to Rio and are targeting a medal haul in excess of the 47 won in Beijing, which is currently the highest number won at an away Games.The build-up to the Games, 100 days away on Wednesday, may have been overshadowed by concerns over doping, the Zika virus and security, but the BOA is satisfied with Team GBs preparations and is focused on delivering medal success. It would be a huge ask for the British team to match the 65 medals won as host nation at the London 2012 Games but BOA chief executive Bill Sweeney welcomes the high expectations London created.London set the bar so high in terms of medals legacy but its been a good thing - the impact it had on the nation and the sports, said Sweeney, who revealed that the BOA had invested double the amount spent on Beijing preparations.There is a possibility for us to exceed the 47 medals overall in Beijing. It is a target for us.BOA chef de mission Mark England added: Its not only a big team but Im confident it is the most talented team weve taken away to a Games.Whether the British athletics team will face Russian counterparts in Rio remains to be seen, with the International Association of Athletics Federations Council meeting in Vienna on June 17 set to decide whether Russian athletes can compete. Jessica Ennis-Hill was heptathlon champion at London 2012 Russia was suspended by the IAAF in November after being accused of state sponsored doping in a report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency.There is no higher profile topic than drugs going into the Games, said Sweeney. But we honestly dont know if it [the IAAF decision] will go one way or the other.It would be bad for the Games not to have a level playing field but on the other hand, you dont want to see a nations athletes banned.The BOA has appointed a head of security to co-ordinate security for British athletes in Rio.The safety of our athletes is our number one priority and we will work closely with the Foreign Office, said England. The assessment on threat and risk will dictate how many people go. Hope are high for Britains athletes this summer in Brazil While security is of paramount importance, there is also a strong focus on giving British athletes a potential edge on rivals with the preparation facilities that are in place.The Team GB pre-Games training camp in Belo Horizonte will enable track and field and swimming athletes to train together at the same base and the British School Performance Centre, situated close to the Olympic Park and the Athletes Village, will provide a training base in Rio at Games time.Olympic sport venues are spread across four zones - Barra, Deodoro, Maracana and Copacabana - with travel between the zones likely to be challenging. Also See: Team GB website Rio 2016 Olympics About the Scholarship Meet the athletes Blogs Videos Galleries Cheap Cincinnati Bengals Jerseys . 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He struck out two, walked one and hit a batter. Edwin Encarnacion had a two-out, bases loaded two-RBI double in the third inning. INDIANAPOLIS -- Cleveland Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue said?LeBron James heavy load through the early part of the season had nothing to do with the 14-year veteran sitting out for rest Wednesday.James, 31, came into the night ranked sixth in the league in playing time at 37.0 minutes per game, an uptick from the career-low 35.6 minutes per game he logged last season.At the start of training camp, Lue said he planned to continue to limit James minutes this season but revealed Wednesday that the 12-time All-Star will continue to play in the 36- to 38-minute range for the time being.We wanted to get him low, but he said he wanted to ramp him up early and then kind of tailor him down in January, February, [around] our All-Star break, Lue said after the Cavs 103-93 loss to the Indiana Pacers. So right now he said he wants to be between 36 and 38 minutes a night and then around the All-Star break start tailoring them down. So hes right where he wants to be right now.Lue said the gradual decrease in minutes to get James body prepared for the playoffs was mutually agreed upon by James, his personal trainer Mike Mancias and the coach.James is the oldest player ranked in the top 10 in minutes. But Torontos Kyle Lowry is 30 (No. 1 at 38.6 minutes per game) and Dallas Wesley Matthews is also 30 (tied for No. 4, 37.3 minutes), so James workload is not an absurd number compared to the rest of the league.Lue would not say how many games he planned to rest James this season or provide a definitive plan for how the team will manage him on back-to-backs moving forward.Just have to see, Lue said. Have to see how were playing at the time and how guys minutes are at the time, and just got to gauge it from there.Cleveland beat Toronto at home Tuesday with James posting 28 points, 14 assists and nine rebounds in 38 minutes before he got the night off versus Indiana.Lue had previously circled busy parts of the Cavs schedule --- plenty of three-in-four obligations as well as two five-in-seven stretches -- when he would find rest for James, knowing that the three-time champion will ramp up his minutes in the postseason as he tries for a seventh straight Finals appearance.ddddddddddddDuring training camp, Lue also mentioned a desire to monitor Kyrie Irvings minutes, and thus far the sixth-year guard is playing 34.3 minutes per game, slightly above the 31.5 minutes he played last season while coming off knee surgery.Im just going off what my strength and conditioning coach as well as the team and our medical staff feels is best, Irving said Wednesday. I mean, honestly, I did come off a long summer, a long year, but for me, to establish myself as one of the [elite] guys in the league consistently, I cant use that as an excuse.So whenever my team needs me, whatever my team needs me to do every single night -- whether its play 40 or play 26 minutes -- you see it varies. I mean, the other night I played 26 minutes, didnt even play the fourth quarter. Some nights its going to be like that. When youre on a winning and championship club like this, I just adjust and just do whatever is needed.Irving, 24, said the notion of playing time doesnt carry the same importance to him as it once did.S---, as long as we keep winning, man, Irving said. All the things that used to matter probably four years ago -- getting an average and trying to stay out there and run myself into the ground -- its not necessarily that important anymore. I know that I can be efficient whenever Im in the game. Im a threat any time I step out onto the floor, so I feel like our coaching staff will put us in a great position to be great out there and Ill put myself in a great position. So whatever is needed for my teammates, Im going to do. ' ' '