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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Abby Johnston had just advanced to the finals of the three-meter springboard Sunday, but she was still being asked about green water, brown water, chemical reactions and pool draining.The affable American, who dubbed the diving pool at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center The Swamp, setting off a flurry of headlines and social media backlash from sensitive locals, could not escape it.Six days had passed since the pool first turned green, then slowly brown, with Rio officials Sunday blaming a contractor for mistakenly mixing hydrogen peroxide with chlorine, causing the adverse reaction. And who else but Johnston to ask for her reaction to it all?My chemistry brain is like ... I did reactions [in school] with that stuff, said the soon-to-be third-year Duke med student, shaking her head. Well, thats interesting.Interesting, and as it turns out, inconsequential to many divers who, confident that officials were being honest when they said it posed no health risk, simply did not seem to mind. Other than complaining about the smell, some even said the murky water was an advantage because it allowed them to better distinguish between the water and the sky as they flip and spin.For Johnston, the only American to advance to Sundays final as teammate Kassidy Cook missed the cut by one position in 13th place, nothing concerning the water color really matters anymore.Its one more day. Its fine. I dont care, said Johnston, who finished the semifinals in fifth place. Its swampy, but whatever. Im diving fine with it, so if they keep it, its fine with me.Rio 2016 spokesman Mario Andrada called it an embarrassment to Rio organizers in a press conference Sunday, and announced that the also-murky pool adjacent to the diving pool, which had been used for water polo, will be drained and filled with nearly a million gallons of clear water from a nearby practice pool.Andrada promised the draining and refilling would be finished by Sunday for the start of synchronized swimming -- an event in which it is especially necessary to see underwater.Wow, thats going to be an impressive feat if they can pull it off, Cook said.The diving pool will remain in its current condition, something Johnston said has been an entertaining distraction.Its a fun thing for all of us divers to stand up there and talk about, she said. Were all in this together.Johnston said she got a lot of hate on social media after she called the pool The Swamp.Im not ragging on it, she said. I know theyre working their butts off trying to fix it. But its kind of funny; Ive never seen a pool change this way.She certainly wasnt the only diver to have fun with it.On Instagram, German diver Patrick Hausding, with hashtags #Hulk and #Shrek, posted a photo of himself and his teammates with a filter that made them all appear green.When I say its a swamp, Im kind of joking, Johnson said. It doesnt matter. It doesnt affect how I actually go on the board. I spend like a nanosecond in the water, so whatever. Les Binkley Jersey . LOUIS -- Alexander Steen scored a power-play goal with 59. Pittsburgh Penguins Gear .7 million, one-year contract, a raise of $2.2 million. Wieters had asked for $8.75 million and the Orioles had offered $6. https://www.cheappenguinsjersey.com/1031q-rick-tocchet-jersey-penguins.html . Jason Zucker and Matt Cooke also scored for Minnesota, which has won five of six. Kuemper made five saves in the first, nine in the second, and nine in the third. 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This season, Bryant is the favorite to add the NL MVP award to a growing collection of hardware.Thats what made his struggles from the start of this World Series -- an .071 batting average and a pair of throwing errors at third base in the same inning of Game 4 -- so confounding.Obviously, I havent been swinging the bat too great, Bryant said, so it was nice to get one to kind of help us all out.His fourth-inning home run off starter Trevor Bauer awakened a hibernating Cubs offense and helped deliver a 3-2 win Sunday night that sent the Series back to Cleveland for Game 6 on Tuesday with the Indians holding a suddenly slippery 3-2 edge.For all the things Bryant has soaked up about baseball, history is low on that list. So when he was asked whether the Cubs could join the short inventory of teams that came back from a 3-1 Series deficit to win, chances were good he couldnt name even one.That hardly dented his confidence.Why not us? Bryant asked, the hint of a smile creasing his lips. I feel like we play our best with our backs up against the wall. ... Hopefully we can get out there and win Game 6, because you never know what can happen in a Game 7.No, but with history as a guide, we can hazard a good guess about the challenge in climbing out of a 3-1 hole.Only five teams have turned the trick in a best-of-seven Series, the last one being the 1985 Kansas City Royals. The last team to do it winning twice on the road, as the Cubs will have to do, was the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates. Yet even those long odds arent likely to trouble Bryant.Were all about writing our own history, he said.He comes by that steeliness honestly. His father, Mike Bryant, kicked around the low minors in the Red Sox organization for two years, but got the education of a lifetime from no less an authority on hitting than Ted Williams. Retired by then, Williams was a roving instructor whose philosophy was soaked up by Mike Bryant and then distilled to a single phrase for his own sons: `Hit it hard, and hit it in the air.ddddddddddddBy age 12, Kris had already mastered both skills. Hes been refining them ever since.Cubs manager Joe Maddon knew the Indians staff, which relied heavily on breaking pitches to keep Bryant off balance, wouldnt get away with the tactic much longer.I like the fact that he wasnt just swinging at anything, Maddon said. Thats what we all have to be able to do. Thats the kind of thing that could get him rolling.It certainly did that for the hitters behind Bryant. Anthony Rizzo followed the fourth-inning homer with a long double, and three of the next four hitters chipped in with singles. Just as important, that kind of discipline at the plate is the centerpiece of Maddons strategy. By grouping his best hitters -- Bryant usually bats second, followed by Rizzo and lately by Ben Zobrist -- Maddon forces opposing pitchers to throw them strikes.When anyone in that grouping starts swinging at bad pitches -- as the Cubs did consistently throughout the first four games -- the chain reaction extends all the way down the lineup. The shift to Cleveland will allow Maddon to re-insert slugger Kyle Schwarber to the mix as the designated hitter, which effectively lengthens the most dangerous stretch of the order.The lineup again is always about protection ... and being able to utilize Schwarber, all of a sudden, those games get a little bit longer and a little bit thicker, Maddon said.Whether its confidence or simply youth, the suspense is what Bryant and the rest of these young Cubs thrive on.This team is a special one, and we look at so many times throughout the year where we havent been playing good, but I feel like we turn that around, he said.Someone told me today that 17 times this year we lost a game and went on to win three in a row, Bryant added a moment later. So why cant we do that now?Why not indeed?---Jim Litke is a sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jlitke(at)ap.org and https://Twitter.com/JimLitke . ' ' '