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England head coach Eddie Jones says next weeks training camp in Brighton represents a great opportunity for players like Danny Cipriani to earn a place on the upcoming tour of Australia.The Grand Slam winners take on the Wallabies in a three-Test series in June, live on Sky Sports, which will provide a chance to gauge just how far they have come under Jones guidance.Preparations for the tour are set to be stepped up between 17-19 May, when a 26-man squad, which includes eight uncapped players, will descend on Brighton for a series of training sessions. Eddie Jones thinks hell have failed if he doesnt get England to the top of rugbys world rankings Players from Premiership semi-finalists Saracens, Exeter, Wasps and Leicester will not be at the camp and Jones is eager to see how some of his new call-ups fare.It is a really important camp for us, he told Sky Sports News HQ. They have all got a great opportunity. Competition for places is intense and we have probably got 40 players competing for 30 spots.Regarding some of the promising forwards he was looking forward to working with, he added: (Charlie) Ewels is a good young lock who has been doing well for Bath.(Teimana) Harrison has come out of the woodwork for Northampton. Pre-Christmas he was not that outstanding but he must have eaten something at Christmas, because his play since has been pretty good!Kyle Sinckler is a young Harlequins prop with great athletic ability and he is going to be competing hard. Kyle Sinckler of Harlequins will be among the youngsters looking to impress Jones An interesting name among the backs is fly-half Danny Cipriani, who, despite missing out on the World Cup squad, is firmly back in England contention after a lengthy spell in the wilderness.Danny has got (rival fly-halves) Owen (Farrell) and George (Ford) in front of him but he has a great opportunity, Jones added.He has great talent and is one of the key reasons Sale have finished so high in the table. I am excited to see what he can do.Two players who will not be at the camp are back rowers Sam Underhill and Steffon Armitage, but Jones says they could well be members of the squad in the future. Steffon Armitage has been linked with a move to Wasps England cannot pick players who are not based in the country unless there are exceptional circumstances and the 19-year-old Underhill is playing for Ospreys in Wales, while he studies in Cardiff.But Jones said: He has been playing pretty well for Ospreys. We have got the situation that he plays outside of England and we have got to sort that situation out.I think we are close to a resolution and there is no doubt he will be selected in an England squad in the next six months.The highly-rated Armitage has been playing in France but has been reportedly linked with a move to Wasps, which could see him back in international contention.Asked if a returning Armitage might be in his thoughts, Jones said: If he comes back and manages to get in the Wasps side, which will be difficult to do.If he gets fit and he wants to play for England, then we will consider him. He is certainly a talented player.Also See:England demands No 1 statusWales unveil squadCipriani earns England recallScotland opt for experienceCarmelo Anthony Nuggets Jersey . Howard Ganz, an MLB lawyer, said in a letter to U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos that Rodriguezs claims do not come "remotely close" to what is needed to overturn an arbitration decision in federal court. 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All of the video replays we were shown on TV were inconclusive about whether the puck had entirely crossed the line or not.As the Olympic Games approach, the tension between athletes and non-sponsors with the United States Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee has ratcheted up once again.In recent weeks, the United States Olympic Committee sent letters to those who sponsor athletes but dont have any sponsorship designation with the USOC or International Olympic Committee, warning them about stealing intellectual property.Commercial entities may not post about the Trials or Games on their corporate social media accounts, reads the letter written by USOC chief marketing officer Lisa Baird. This restriction includes the use of USOCs trademarks in hashtags such as #Rio2016 or #TeamUSA.The USOC owns the trademarks to Olympic, Olympian and Go For The Gold, among many other words and phrases.The letter further stipulates that a company whose primary mission is not media-related cannot reference any Olympic results, cannot share or repost anything from the official Olympic account and cannot use any pictures taken at the Olympics.The whole thing is ridiculous, said Sally Bergesen, CEO of Oiselle, which the USOC contacted after Oiselle published pictures of athlete Kate Grace after she won the 800 meters at the trials earlier this month.Oiselle sanitized the photos by blurring images of Olympic property but decided to leave the blogs up.While the USOC argues that money from sponsors and licensees who pay for the rights allow them to support athletes to go to the Games, Bergesen says the stringent rules hurt the athletes because companies that cant support them during the Games cant afford to pay them because of lack of promotion.It costs $300,000 to send an Olympian to the Games, and for our athletes, the USOC has reimbursed them about 1 percent of that cost, Bergesen said. Is that supporting them?Baird says that athletes can support a non-sponsor during the Games and a non-sponsor can support an athlete -- they just cant mention anything about the Olympics specifically.We need to give sponnsors exclusivity to our intellectual property that is protected by U.ddddddddddddS. law, Baird said.This is the first Olympics in which the IOC has relaxed its long-standing Rule 40, in which non-sponsors and athletes cant mention their relationship for a monthlong period in and around the Games.As part of a new compromise, the IOC, in concert with the USOC, allowed companies that did not have an official relationship to run ads during the Games so long as those ads started running in March and ran continuously through the Games.Baird wouldnt say how many companies had their ads approved and decided to commit to the five-month window, but she said it was a significant number.Bergesen said that smaller companies dont have the luxury to do that, which means it doesnt benefit them nor their athletes.A company like Under Armour can do that because they know that Michael Phelps is going to be in the Games, Bergesen said. We dont know in January which one of our athletes is going to make the Games.New Balance isnt a USOC or IOC sponsor but had more than 70 of its athletes qualify for the Games.We find the IOCs Rule 40 extremely frustrating and challenging to work with as a brand which wants to celebrate the many amazing achievements of our hard-working global athletes, said New Balance spokesperson Amy Dow. It is also unfortunate that many athletes do not have the freedom or opportunity to support the brands that support them.Baird said that companies take the hardship out of context.Athletes can certainly generically say, Thank you for your support during the Games, Baird said. But a company that sells a sports drink certainly cant post something from the Games on their social media page or website. Theyre doing nothing but using the Olympics to sell their drink. Thats entirely different from what say, ESPN is doing, which is clearly defined as journalism. ' ' '