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DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke quarterback Thomas Sirk has already come back from one ruptured Achilles tendon.Now hes doing it again -- and faster than before.Less than six months after he was hurt during an offseason workout, Sirk is aiming to be back on the field next month when the Blue Devils begin preseason camp.I just dont want to be back just to say that Im back, Sirk said in an interview with The Associated Press. I want to be even better than I was before. It wouldnt do me any good or the team any good to say, `Hey, Thomas Sirk is back. I want to come back and help our team win in every game.Sirks recovery will likely be a topic of discussion Thursday during the Atlantic Coast Conferences media days in Charlotte. Coach David Cutcliffe said this week that hell have a better idea of Sirks availability in the next couple of weeks -- Duke begins Aug. 8 -- but that Sirks work ethic during his rehab process left a strong impression on him.I dont ever go into the facility and not see him working, Cutcliffe said.Sirk is a rising redshirt senior who in his first season as Dukes starter led the Blue Devils to their first bowl victory since 1961, an overtime win over Indiana in last years Pinstripe Bowl in which he earned co-MVP honors after rushing for two touchdowns and throwing for another. He passed for 2,625 yards with 16 TDs last season and also led the team in rushing with 803 yards and eight scores.Then came a seemingly benign conditioning session with his teammates on Feb. 9. He started to run a 10-yard sprint and heard his left heel pop. It was the same sound he heard from his right heel in April 2013 -- when he ruptured that Achilles tendon and missed that entire season.I just kind of accepted it at that point -- here comes the rehab process, Sirk said. I knew that I did it once, I can do it again and come back from it.To many outside the team, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that Sirk wouldnt play in 2016, and the first-team reps during the spring game went to Parker Boehme.But the Blue Devils werent so pessimistic. Cutcliffe said during spring practice that Thomas may be ready, just so everybody knows while mentioning his rehab was ahead of schedule, and it was Sirk who was listed atop the post-spring depth chart.For Sirk, some of the lessons from his first comeback helped to accelerate the process this time around, he said.Its kind of sped up as far as what Im doing, and now I feel like Im reaching the goals that I had last time for my Achilles faster, and Im reaching them at 100 percent, Sirk said. Im not just reaching them to say that Ive reached them. You dont want to be too ambitious, but at the same time youve got to have faith in the process.The worst of the exercises, he said, were calf presses because its kind of disheartening when you cant lift up on one side as well as you can the other side but that hes regaining the muscle definition in his left calf.He said hes been throwing five days a week with his receivers to keep his timing, touch and coordination, even if sometimes those throws have been while hes on his knees. And hes jogging both on land and on an underwater treadmill, working toward his goal of running full speed.Ultimately, he wants to help Duke reach -- and win -- an ACC championship game after the injury during his redshirt freshman year kept him sidelined during the Blue Devils run to the Coastal Division title in 2013.It means everything to me, coming back for my senior year and being there with the guys I came in with and finishing what we started, Sirk said. We want to win an ACC championship. I think we have that caliber of talent on our team. ... I feel like I still have unfinished business and I want to make my senior year the best I can for myself and my team. Nike React Sale . It was Kerbers third final of the year after losing to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia in Monterrey in April and to Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic in Tokyo two weeks ago. The 10th-ranked German improved her record in finals to 3-5. 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Pearce talked of common passion, but has also advised Sevens boss Amor on selection dilemmas, given his own stewardship of Team GBs 2012 football side.Ive had a lot of conversations with Stuart Pearce about how he managed to bring that GB team together for London 2012, the challenges he faced in a short space of time, to bring the home nations together, said Amor. Stuart told me to smash the Team GB message with the players.He obviously had the difficult choice of not picking David Beckham, he chose Ryan Giggs instead. The biggest thing he said was hammer home that Team GB message, how big it is.Everyone you speak to says it doesnt matter what youve done in the past, theres nothing that compares to this, the Olympics, the size, the scale, the feeling. And the other thing he said was to try to enjoy the journey, because he said it goes by just like that, in a second.Weve tried to enforce that with the guys and theyve worked so hard so far.Amor is just as busy weighing final Rio selection as building excitement and ambition amoong his squad.dddddddddddd The former England Sevens star will not though be filling any quotas when that final squad selection comes around. Amor has insisted the top-performing players will be selected to travel to Brazil, irrespective of their nationality.Every British & Irish Lions tour squad selection is picked apart for the numbers representing each nation, but Amor claims there will be no need for any similar process for the eventual Team GB line-up.Amor will finalise his 12-strong squad selection on July 19, before the GB mens outfit face New Zealand, Kenya and Japan in group-stage action, starting on August 9.There has been no quota set, said Amor of the impending Team GB selection. As soon as I got the job I committed 100 per cent to sending the very best team we could possibly to the Olympics. That meant making some tough calls for resting and recovering the England guys, knowing we needed a squad of at least 24 going in.But now its about that blend and that balance, and thats what were trying to do in training, seeing who works well together. So it may not be the best individual players, it may be who works best with that particular player.So nothing to do with quotas, well send what we think is the best squad. ' ' '