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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil and Uruguay each play away on Tuesday in a round of South American World Cup qualifiers that could see first place in the table change hands.Leader Uruguay will travel to Barranquilla to face fourth-place Colombia while Brazil visits Merida to challenge bottom Venezuela. If Brazil wins and Uruguay fails to, the five-time world champions will go from sixth place to first in only four matches under new manager Adenor Bacchi, universally known as Tite.Weeks ago, Brazil wasnt even among the top four in South Americas standings, which award automatic places at the World Cup in Russia. Now Brazil has 18 points, one behind Uruguay.Although Venezuela has only two points in nine matches, Tite recognized it will be a key match for Brazil. That is because Barcelona star Neymar wont be available for him for the first time due to a suspension. Under former coach Dunga, Brazil won 85 percent of the time with Neymar on the pitch and only 50 percent without him.Tite said the match against Venezuela would be important to show that the team has to be strong without Neymar and, when with him, become even stronger.Practice sessions in sunny Natal, in Brazils Northeast, showed Chelseas Willian in the starting lineup as a replacement for Neymar. Guangzhou Evergrandes midfielder Paulinho also seemed set to claim back his position -- he was suspended in the 5-0 thrashing of Bolivia on Thursday.Uruguay, who beat Venezuela 3-0 in Montevideo in the previous round, will have a much trickier challenge against a rising Colombia team.It will be the fifth time coach Oscar Tabarez Uruguay plays against Jose Pekermans Colombia. So far, each has won two.---ARGENTINAFifth-place Argentina has massive problems as it prepares to host sixth-place Paraguay on Tuesday: superstar Lionel Messi is still injured, its defense has been dismantled with the absence of three players and the team is getting farther and farther from the leaders.With 16 points alongside Ecuador and Colombia, but behind on goal difference, Argentina holds its worst position in qualifiers since the current system was implemented for the 1998 World Cup in France.Messi also missed successive 2-2 draws against Venezuela and Peru in the previous qualifiers. In its opening nine qualifiers, Argentina won the three in which Messi was involved and collected only seven points from the other six games.We cant always depend on Messi, we have to do something to get ahead so his absence is not noted, Juventus striker Paulo Dybala said.Besides Messi, Argentina is without defenders Pablo Zabaleta, Nicolas Otamendi and Ramiro Funes Mori.Paraguay, with 12 points, lost to Colombia at home 1-0 in the previous round and needs a win to keep alive its hopes of qualification for Russia.---CHILECopa America winner Chile will play perhaps the most attractive match of the week in Santiago against Peru. Lagging in seventh place with 11 points, Chile risks not qualifying for the World Cup if it doesnt beat its Andean rival. After losing 3-0 to Ecuador, Chile coach Juan Antonio Pizzi is under heavy pressure. He blamed the altitude for the bad result in Quito and promised a different attitude before the home fans.It will be different on Tuesday, Pizzi said. Three months ago we won Copa America Centenario with those players and these tactics. Then we played three games and our line was always the same, except for the match against Ecuador. We will insist with things that gave us good results.Eighth-place Peru, with eight points, has limited hopes of qualification.Elsewhere, ninth-place Bolivia hosts third-place Ecuador. Cory Gearrin Yankees Jersey . The Brazilian goalkeeper signed a loan deal with the Major League Soccer club on Friday as he looks to get playing time ahead of this summers World Cup in his home country. Elston Howard Jersey . 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ELDORET, Kenya -- So far, so good for David Rudisha at the Kenyan Olympic trials, but the notoriously tough competition dashed the hopes of one big name Thursday when 2012 London Games silver medalist Sally Kigyego only finished sixth in the womens 10,000 meters and didnt make the team for Rio.Rudisha, the world-record holder and Olympic champion in the 800 meters, qualified for the trials final in his event after winning his semifinal in 1 minute 43.40 seconds. That was Rudishas best time of a slow season so far.But at the Kenyan trials, which are always packed with world and Olympic medalists and fiercely contested, times dont matter nearly as much as just getting a place at the Olympics.Im out to make the team, thats my goal, and if we go to the Olympics ... I aspire to great things, Rudisha said.Rudisha ran in the bunch for 600 meters then kicked ahead with his long strides to win. He will now compete in the final Friday hoping to clinch one of the two automatic places in Rio de Janeiro for the top two finishers in each event. Kenya also gives a wild card place at the Olympics to a third athlete in each event, which is up to track officials discretion.Olympic silver medalist Kigyego wont go to Rio after she faded in the 10,000 final in Eldoret, a famed long-distance training town in western Kenya where the high altitude and thin air breeds world-beating runners, but makes competing on the track more difficult than normal. Reigning 10,000 meters world champion Vivian Cheruiyot won the final and Betsy Saina finishhed second to claim the two automatic places.dddddddddddd Recently-crowned African champion Alice Aprot was given the wild card before the trials, meaning the field was racing for just two places.Cheruiyot is a two-time world champion in the 5,000 and in the 10,000 but is missing an Olympic gold medal. She won silver in the 5,000 and bronze in the 10,000 in London.Also Thursday, 2015 world silver medalist Caleb Ndiku set up another shot at Olympic and world champion Mo Farah in Rio after winning a ferocious mens 5,000 meters final. Ndiku won a sprint finish over world championships bronze medalist Isiah Koech, who also qualified. Kenyas track federation was yet to announce the wild card in the mens 5,000.Ezekiel Kemboi, the 3,000 meters steeplechase king and defending Olympic champion, cruised into Fridays final with a comfortable third-place finish in the semifinals. That Kenyan trials final could easily be an Olympic final with Kemboi, former world and Olympic champion Brimin Kipruto, two-time world silver medalist Conseslus Kipruto, Olympic bronze medalist Abel Mutai and Paul Kipsiele Koech, another former Olympic medalist, all battling to be in the top two.Rudisha faces tough opposition in his final, too. Hell be challenged by, among others, local rival Ferguson Rotich, who has beaten Rudisha twice this year, London bronze medalist Timothy Kitum and two former world junior champions. ' ' '