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After years shouting for the right to represent Great Britain at the Olympic Games, Nicola Adams almost missed her big moment in the boxing sun.Adams was stricken by a back injury at the same time performance director Rob McCracken was holding trials to determine the first batch of women boxers who would train towards winning medals at London 2012.Without McCrackens conviction and the pleas of the team doctor, the 33-year-old may not now be standing on the cusp of becoming the first British boxer to retain an Olympic title for 92 years.Adams will begin her campaign for history when she faces Ukraines Tetyana Kob at Riocentro on Tuesday morning in a bout with a guaranteed medal at stake.McCracken said while he never doubted the Leeds flyweights capacity for making history, he faced a major battle to enroll her on the first womens programme at all.McCracken said: When Nicky first came to Sheffield in 2009 to try out for the programme she was ill and sat on a chair and just watched the others.I told the doctor I couldnt put her on the programme unless she did something, and I was about to send her home.There were other girls there working hard and it wouldnt have been fair on them.The doctor asked me to wait and give him one month to get her right. The first thing she was able to do was shadow-box and even when she just did that we could see she had real talent.We added her to the programme in 2010 and she has been a delight.Adams is hungry to make more history and as focused as ever after finally winning her first world title earlier this year.But she will be eager to guard against complacency after fellow reigning champion Katie Taylor suffered a shock loss in her opening lightweight bout on Monday.Adams said: I never underestimate any of my opponents because the average fighter can turn into a world-beater when they get in the ring with the likes of me or Katie.Theyve got nothing to lose, theyre the underdog and I have to keep that in mind. 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EDMONTON, Alberta -- The Dallas Stars finally have some positive momentum going.Patrick Eaves had a goal and an assist and Kari Lehtonen made 40 saves as the Stars won for the second time in two nights, beating the Edmonton Oilers 3-2 on Friday.Lauri Korpikoski and Antoine Roussel also scored for the Stars, who had lost six of seven before turning things around with a win at Calgary on Thursday night.I havent played back-to-backs in a long time, so that was a nice challenge and it was fun to get lots of action too, it kept me in the game easily the whole time, Lehtonen said.Dallas forward Tyler Seguin, who picked up two assists, said the Stars really clamped down defensively.Were finding ways to defend, Seguin said. With the guys out of the lineup, thats a lot of speed and a lot of goal scoring. Our main focus and discussions have been how were going to defend. I thought our goalie did a great job tonight and our D made some great plays and some smart plays and our forwards track back hard. It was good things the last two nights, were going to put it away and keep it going.Patrick Maroon and Tyler Pitlick scored for Edmonton, which has lost two straight to fall to 2-4-1 since starting the season 7-1-0. Cam Talbot stopped 27 shots.Were always playing from behind, Oilers captain Connor McDavid said. Were putting ourselves behind the 8-ball and we have to figure out a way to have better starts.They did a good job at trapping up the middle and not allowing us to get speed. Ultimately, weve got to find a way to win a game like that. Its just not good enough coming close.ddddddddddddRoussel got the tiebreaking goal with 5 minutes left in the second period, taking a partial breakaway pass from Seguin and beating Talbot.Edmonton had some solid chances in the dying minutes, but Lehtonen preserved the win.Dallas got off to a fast start, scoring on the first shot of the game, just 28 seconds in. Jamie Benn fed it into the slot to Korpikoski, who blasted a shot past Talbot.Jordan Eberle put the Oilers back on the offense just three minutes later, fishing a puck out of a scramble in front of the net and putting a shot on Lehtonen, with Maroon sweeping in to score his sixth of the season.Eaves scored on a long point shot to make it 2-1 for Dallas five minutes into the first period.Edmonton tied the game up again with 29 seconds left to play in the opening period as Pitlick got the puck behind the net and swooped out front before calmly lifting a backhand past Lehtonen.Game notes The Stars have been forced to get by without six of their top forwards, with Cody Eakin, Patrick Sharp, Ales Hemsky, Jiri Hudler, Jason Spezza and Mattias Janmark all absent from the lineup. ... Coming into the game, the Stars had gone 17-3-4 against the Oilers over the past seven seasons. ... It was the first of three meetings between the two teams this season, the next one is at Dallas on Nov. 19.UP NEXTStars: At Vancouver on Sunday in the finale of a five-game trip.Oilers: Host the New York Rangers on Sunday. ' ' '