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RIO DE JANEIRO -- One day over lunch in Serbia three years ago, Kim Hill began yodeling.She is quick to downplay her talents for a practice rooted in the Alps. She insists its just a song she learned growing up that happens to include yodeling.Regardless, her teammates and coaches absolutely love when she does it, even if yodeling is not on the Olympic program.I dont know how to actually yodel, definitely never took lessons, Hill said. Growing up, my family went to this German restaurant every year and theres a song they sing there that has some yodeling in it.However the story goes, theres one thing most everybody agrees on: That first yodel marked the moment Hill fit right in with U.S. womens volleyball team and a group drawn to the spontaneous.A song. A dance. An improvised cheer.The way U.S. assistant coach Tom Black remembers it, the players were talking over their meal and Hill mentioned yodeling. Of course, they begged her to demonstrate.And it caught on real fast, Black said. There was a lot of yodeling going on by the group and it was tradition for about a year and a half. I was laughing and also really happy for Kim. She was the new kid on the block, and the way she handled it -- self-effacing, having fun but willing to laugh at herself -- and the genuine enthusiasm the veterans showed about it helped them coalesce into a tighter group. I was more encouraged for that aspect of it. There was never a problem before, but I think that was the moment Kim was officially in.So, hows that saying go? For this group, the team that yodels together wins together.That remains to be seen for the unbeaten and top-ranked U.S. squad, which is chasing its first Olympic gold medal and topped rival China in four sets Sunday night. The Americans won 22-25, 25-17, 25-19, 25-19.Coach Karch Kiraly knows he has an immensely talented, family-first roster. The most decorated player of his generation and only person with gold in beach and indoor volleyball has embraced the quirky moments along the way. Whatever it takes to build a unit that will stick together in pursuit of the top prize in Rio.Its different than coaching a mens team. Sometimes the womens team will just be at lunch and break out in song, Kiraly said. And Im OK with that, I think its awesome. Theyll just break out and start dancing, like well be warming up in the warmup gym and theyll start dancing a little bit. We love to play our music, they love to dance, they love to sing. And I love that they are in an atmosphere where they feel they can be themselves and do that and break into a dance if they feel like it. So, Kim, they all have the freedom and the trust and the safety to do that.After that first yodeling show came Kiralys 53rd birthday four months later on Nov. 3 during a tournament in Japan. Of course, Kiraly requested a celebratory yodel from Hill for the occasion.We love throwing twists on the traditional `Happy Birthday song, so yodeling was what Kim threw into the mix, captain Christa Dietzen said. Each of our younger teammates all had to find their role or place on the team. It takes a while, but the culture weve created allows people to be all of themselves.The soft-spoken outside hitter from Portland, Oregon, has been a regular Olympic starter so far. Dont let her demeanor fool you.She has got the most amazing spirit about her. Nothing fazes her, Kiraly said. I dont know anybody in this world who could find a bad word to say about her. Shes just a sweetheart. And I think that fools some people. I think that sweet exterior makes people think that she might not be very competitive, but shes extremely competitive in her sweet way.Assistant coach Jamie Morrison is sure the 6-foot-4 Hill should take the yodeling lead.I have attempted to join in but my yodeling skills are not up to par with Kim, he said, noting he first heard the yodel in 2014 at Montreaux, Switzerland. I was left wondering if Kim was actually from the Swiss Alps. Air Force 1 07 Saldi . Its sharpness matched my mind. This was no night to go to sleep. Air Max 90 Saldi .Y. -- Bills receiver Stevie Johnson has a bone to pick with the NFL schedule maker. http://www.outletscarpesaldi.it/saucony-scarpe-prezzo-basso.html . -- San Francisco 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks was fined $15,570 by the NFL on Wednesday for his hit on Saints quarterback Drew Brees last Sunday. Air Max 720 Italia ., and Rudi Swiegers of Kipling, Sask., took sixth spot on Saturday in pairs at the NHK Trophy ISU Grand Prix figure skating competition. 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Alastair Cook has conceded that Englands Test fortunes may have stagnated over the past 12 months, but confirms he will not rush any decision on the future of his Test captaincy, in spite of another humiliating defeat in the fifth and final match of Englands tour of India.Cooks dismissal for 49 in the first hour after lunch was the catalyst for another dramatic collapse on the final afternoon in Chennai, as England lost ten wickets for 104 runs in 48.2 overs - including their last six for 16 - to slump to defeat by an innings and 75 runs, and a 4-0 series loss.The defeat was Englands eighth in 17 Tests in 2016, equalling their record number of losses for a calendar year, and they will finish the year at No. 5 in the Test rankings, some way below the levels they might have anticipated after winning both the Ashes and a memorable away win against South Africa.When asked by Sky Sports if England had stagnated under his leadership, Cook responded: Thats a fair shout, you can say whatever you want now, if I turn around here and slag everyone off and use emotive language, Im not going my job. When you lose Test cricket, you get criticised. You have to take it on the chin.The defeat was Cooks 22nd in 59 Tests at the helm, meaning he has overtaken Michael Atherton as Englands most defeated captain in Test history. However, he confirmed he will wait until the dust has settled on the tour before deciding whether to carry on as captain, following an anticipated meeting with Andrew Strauss, Englands team director, in the New Year.This is not the place to be standing asking me these questions, Cook said. II have to go away and do some thinking.dddddddddddd. I need to get back home and do it without the emotive side of whats happened over the last nine weeks.Nevertheless, the defeat at Chennai was Englands second by an innings in as many matches, and just as in Mumbai last week, they were blown away in spite of winning the toss and posting a large first-innings total - 400 at the Wankhede, 477 at Chepauk.I dont think we ran out of fight, all the guys gave their all, but werent good enough, Cook said. Whether thats a culmination of the pressure being built up over a long period of time, or a bit of mental tiredness, people will look at that and say its an excuse, but we havent been good enough in these conditions.I said at the beginning of the series, it was vitally important to stay in the contest as long as we can, because weve seen in previous tours here, its a hard juggernaut to stop, the India juggernaut at home, when there are playing as well as that. Once they get ahead, their confidence goes and its hard to stop that momentum.Whether 4-0 is fair or not, its hard to say, he added. Weve struggled to take 20 wickets and we havent got enough runs, so we probably didnt deserve much more than that.Weve missed opportunities, weve been in games and had good fortune to win four out of five tosses, but we havent pushed home our advantages. Sometimes you have to hold hands up and say we are not good enough in these conditions. We will have to be better when we come back. ' ' '