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AUSTIN, Texas -- Lewis Hamilton got the victory he needed to keep his Formula One championship hopes alive. Now he needs more, and he needs Mercedes teammate and rival Nico Rosberg to make a mistake or have a bad race.Hamilton won his fourth U.S. Grand Prix in five years on Sunday, bolting from pole position and cruising to an easy victory that cut Rosbergs lead to 26 points with three races left.Yeehaw! Hamilton roared over his car radio as he rounded the final turn for the checkered flag on his 50th career victory. The battle will continue. Ill be going for it.Victories wont be enough for the two-time defending champion to keep his title. Rosberg still holds a relatively comfortable lead heading to next weeks race in Mexico City where he won last year. Two seconds and a third in the final three races will be enough for Rosberg to earn his first season title and match his father Keke Rosbergs 1982 championship.Rosberg is keenly aware that he controls his destiny. Unlike last season, when tensions boiled over in the post-race cool down room and Rosberg tossed a podium cap at Hamiltons face, the German was all smiles Sunday as Hamilton celebrated his win.Rosberg shrugged off any suggestion he has lost any momentum. The Mercedes duel now heads into a stretch of races Rosberg dominated last season when he reeled of victories in Mexico, Brazil and Abu Dhabi. Hes failed to finish only one race this season and has only four others that didnt end on the podium.Its a pity it didnt work out for a win, in the U.S., Rosberg said.Rosberg insists he wont settle for the safety of second place and will push for wins over the final stretch. He made a late charge over the final 10 laps to shave nearly five seconds off Hamiltons lead, but never threatened to overtake him for the win.Hamilton effectively won the race -- and Rosberg lost it -- on the first turn.Hamilton had been plagued by poor starts all season and had won won only three of his previous eight races from pole position this season. He finally got the jump he needed with a burst off the line hed been missing.It worked perfect today, Hamilton said.Hamilton bolted into the 110-foot, elevated left turn that whiplashes the cars back downhill. He was first to the corner, held position and was off and running. Rosberg was pushed into third when Red Bulls Daniel Ricciardo cut under his inside and edged him out at the top of the turn. Ricciardo finished third for his second U.S. Grand Prix podium in three years.I was looking good but struggled for grip around the corner, Rosberg said. I lost out a bit at the start but gave everything to come back. I was going for it flat out till the end.Once comfortably in the lead, all Hamilton had to do was hope he didnt run into similar problems two races earlier in Malaysia, where he was cruising toward victory before an engine failure knocked him out of the race late.I was concerned the whole race the car wasnt going to make it ... right up to the line, Hamilton said.Ferraris Sebastian Vettel finished fourth. The Haas F1 teams Romain Grosjean finished 10th, earning the rookie American-led team a point in its debut appearance in its home race.Red Bulls Dutch teenager Max Verstappen had a wild race that ended with a gear box problem on lap 32. After an aggressive start on super-soft tires when he was pressing Rosberg early, Verstappens garage warned the 19-year-old, just make sure you can finish.Im not here to finish fourth! Verstappen snapped back. He later came in for a pit stop when his team wasnt ready, telling them he mistakenly heard an order on the radio. 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Kiriasis and brakeman Franziska Fritz finished two runs in one minute 55.41 seconds -- a mere 0.01 seconds ahead of Meyers and Lolo Jones, who likely bolstered her Olympic hopes by helping give USA-1 a huge push in the second heat. BOSTON -- Anton Khudobin became the latest Boston Bruins goaltender to get injured Monday.Khudobin skated over to the Bruins bench at Warrior Ice Arena just before practice and had his right arm or wrist attended to by the training staff. The goaltender then left the ice and didnt return.On Tuesday Bruins GM Don Sweeney announced Khudobin has an upper body injury and is expected to miss approximately three weeks.Sweeney also announced that the team has recalled goaltender Zane McIntyre from the Providence Bruins on an emergency basis and assigned defenseman Rob OGara to Providence.The Bruins already were without Tuukka Rask, who has been out since Oct. 20?because of an undisclosed injury suffered in a game against the New Jersey Devils.?Heading into their home game against the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday, the Bruins (3-2-0) didnt know who would be their starting goaltender.This is hockey, Bruins coach Claude Julien said. We deal on a day-to-day basis with injuries. You wait for the news and you go about doing your job as its required. If we have to make some adjustments and we have to have different personnel, well deal with it when we have more of an update. But right now I have nothing.Julien said Rask is still day-to-day.Malcolm Subban, the Bruins first-round pick (24th overall) in 2012, was recalled from Providence of the American Hockey League on Monday to fill in for Rask.Subban, the younger brother of Nashville Predators All-Star defenseman P.K. Subban, then became the lone goaltender for the hour-llong practice.ddddddddddddRask started the Bruins season opener Oct. 13. He then missed the next game two nights later because of injury, but he was able to dress as Khudobins backup. Rask returned to play the following two games, but he hasnt skated since he beat the Devils 2-1 on Oct. 20. Rask is 3-0-0 with a .947 save percentage and 1.67 goals-against average.Khudobin is 0-2-0 with a .849 save percentage and 4.10 GAA.Subbans emergency call-up couldnt have come at a worse time for the 22-year-old. In four games for Providence, he has a .846 save percentage and 4.50 GAA and he has been pulled twice. He allowed four goals on 34 shots in an overtime loss to Albany on Sunday.Obviously not the way you want to start the season, Subban said. To be honest, last game I felt a lot better. ... I feel like Im battling. Its not the first time Ive faced adversity, its not going to be the last. I dont feel too down on myself right now, to be honest.Subbans only previous NHL experience was a start to forget on Feb. 20, 2015, on the road against the St. Louis Blues.He was pulled one minute into the second period after allowing three goals on six shots.With the Bruins needing to bounce back from their 4-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday, Subban might get another chance.If I get the call, Ill be ready to go, Subban said.Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. ' ' '