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Wrestler Parveen Rana has been named as Narsingh Yadavs replacement to represent India in the 74kg mens freestyle category at the Rio Olympics. The move comes as a surprise because Narsingh is to appear in front of a National Anti Doping Agency panel on Wednesday to contest his suspension on doping charges.Rana, who won the gold medal in the 74 kg freestyle category at the Dave Schultz Memorial tournament in USA in 2014, had lost to Narsingh in the trial for the World Championship in Las Vegas in 2015, the tournament where Narsingh had originally booked Indias first berth at the 2016 Olympics by winning bronze.The two wrestlers also met in the Pro Wrestling League, where Narsinghs Bengaluru-based franchise and Ranas Punjab-based team were both losing semifinalists, where Yadav had run out 6-3 winner.A report on unitedworldwrestling.org said the United World Wrestling informed the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) last week that since Narsinghs positive test occurred outside of the qualification event they would be allowed replace him with another wrestler, or else vacate the qualification spot. The United World Wrestling is the games governing body.The report further said that the IOA informed United World Wrestling of its desire to enter Rana as Narsinghs replacement.ESPN has learnt that Narsinghs legal team was taken by surprise by this latest development. Narsingh had tested positive in tests conducted by the National Anti-Doping Agency, which announced its findings on Sunday.NADAs inquiry process is being conducted by its anti-doping disciplinary panel, which is due to meet on Wednesday. If Narsinghs appeal is upheld, he is likely to be reinstated and sent to Rio. Tony Pollard Cowboys Jersey .ca looks back at the stories and moments that made the year memorable. Robert Newhouse Jersey . LOUIS -- Theres no telling how these wacky World Series games will end. http://www.shoptheofficialcowboys.com/Elite-Michael-Irvin-Cowboys-Jersey/ . -- Catcher Brett Hayes has agreed to a $630,000, one-year contract with the Kansas City Royals, avoiding salary arbitration. 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While crowds are sparse for many sports, theyve been healthy for tennis -- and often far louder than the number of folks in the stands would suggest.Wimbledon, this is not.Its different when you play in Europe -- the people are more calm, Brazilian player Thomaz Bellucci said. In Brazil, people get crazy, and its very nice.Jeering is common, and fans often yell out in the middle of a point or as a player is about to serve -- no-nos in tennis.Sometimes we dont know exactly when its OK to cheer, acknowledged Mauricio Vieira, a 40-year-old Brazilian fan who attended del Potros first-round match against top-ranked Novak Djokovic. You have to understand, our point of reference is soccer.And that point of reference is to be raucous -- all the time.We are not used to these kinds of sports, so we watch it as we know it, said 34-year-old Vanessa Pessoa, who works in project management. We make a lot of noise because its who we are.Players have mostly enjoyed the atmosphere, even when its gone against them. Some of the loudest roars so far came on the second-largest court, where the Brazilian doubles team of Bellucci and Andre Sa upset second-seeded brothers Andy and Jamie Murray of Britain in the first round Sunday.It beats playing in front of two men and a dog, said Jamie Murray, whose regular doubles partner, Bruno Soares, is Brazilian.Other than rooting for Brazilian players and against Argentines -- as del Petro experienced in his first two matches -- the home fans can be unpredictable in their allegiances. The objects of their cheers and jeers can shift from set to set, game to game and even point to point.They play with the players: If you win the point, they start screaming, Bellucci said after his first-round singles match.They seem to like the big names, but also underdogs. They love showmanship and, perhaps not surprisingly, passion. Serena Williams earned her biggest roars in her first-rounnd match for her loudest bellows of Come on! But when she smashed a racket in her second-round match, boos rained down.ddddddddddddIts different than your average tennis crowd, Williams said. I like it.In sister Venus first-round match, the crowd swung to the side of her diminutive opponent, 61st-ranked Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium, stoked by her drop shots and her will to rally from a big deficit.Goosebumps all over the place, from the first to the last second, Flipkens said.They just enjoyed my game because, I think, Im a little girl trying to do some special stuff to get a chance to beat a champion like that, she added.During that match, some spectators tried to start a U-S-A! chant that was quickly drowned out by boos. The Brazilian crowd directed some of its loudest derision toward Belluccis first-round opponent, Dustin Brown, the dreadlocked German whos typically a fan favorite.But when Brown twisted his ankle and then tried to play through the injury, cheers poured down from the stands.Bellucci said he had never experienced anything like the atmosphere that day on center court. Home matches in Davis Cup -- the head-to-head competitions between mens national teams -- generally draw 2,000-3,000 fans, Bellucci added.Even non-Brazilian players have little to compare this to. The only similar setting Flipkens could remember in her career was the 2006 Fed Cup final -- the womens national-team competition -- that Belgium hosted.Frances Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who had the crowd both for and against him in his first-round win, said the atmosphere was far livelier than at the 2012 London Olympics.They give us emotions, so thats good, he said.Rio hosts a clay-court tournament in the winter that draws a handful of top players. At the Olympics, though, many spectators seem to be novices at watching tennis -- but not at sports fandom.Who is not shouting has problems. Its too much fun, said Clarisse Lopes, a 30-year-old psychologist attending her first pro tennis tournament. Its not every day we get to see a Djokovic or Serena Williams play in our country. This is such a treat, and we dont have a better way of expressing it.---AP Tennis Writer Howard Fendrich and Associated Press writer Adriana Gomez Licon contributed to this report. ' ' '