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MOSCOW (Olympics) - Spain’s women edged the Czech Republic 66-63 in their opening game at the Olympic warm-up tournament in Moscow but on Wednesday suffered a 69-58 defeat to Israel. Anna Montanana had a game-high 25 points but Israel, who will this summer attempt to qualify for next year’s EuroBasket Women in Latvia, outscored the Spanish ...

GOLD COAST (Olympics) – Matt Nielsen couldn’t play at the 2006 FIBA World Championship for Australia because of an insurance problem with his club in Europe, Lietuvos rytas. Two years later and the forward will captain the team at the Beijing Games. Nielsen, 30, desperate to play in his second Olympics, paid a significant portion of his ...

LAS VEGAS (Olympics) – Kobe Bryant knows that with so much firepower on the USA Olympic team, he will not be counted on to score as much as does with the Los Angeles Lakers. He expects to have a prominent role on defense, though. “My role is different with this team because you don’t have to score 30-something points,” he ...

SYDNEY (National Federation) - Australian basketball icon Andrew Gaze was today appointed to the interim board responsible for the merger between Basketball Australia and the NBL, and the overall reform of the sport in Australia. As Australia's best known and one of its most successful basketball identities, Gaze is expected to bring a unique ...

LAS VEGAS (Olympics) – USA coach Mike Krzyzewski has called Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade “the most pleasant surprise” following the Olympic squad’s third day of practice in Las Vegas. Wade, one of the national team captains, cut short his NBA campaign to continue his rehabilitation from a knee injury. “Dwyane has been ...

LAS VEGAS (Olympics) – Dwight Howard is going at full speed with Team USA after recovering from a stress fracture to his sternum. The USA center is at the national team training camp Las Vegas this week where the final phase of preparations for the Beijing Games is underway. “It’s over with,” the Orlando Magic star said of the ...

BRISBANE (Olympics) - Tully Bevilaqua has returned to Australia to join up with Opals as they step up their workouts for the Olympics. And the veteran guard, who just turned 36, is still smiling a couple of weeks after being told by coach Jan Stirling that she had made the team for the Beijing Games. ''It was good to finally hear the words,'' ...

A CORUNA (Olympics) – Lithuania have been brushing aside the competition in the build-up to the Olympics. At the Torneo Ciudad De La Coruña on Monday, Linas Kleiza erupted for 24 points in a 90-61 mauling of Portugal. Prior to that triumph, Ramunas Butautus’ team had thrashed Belarus 113-57 and followed that up with two more ...

A CORUNA (Olympics) – Lithuania have been brushing aside the competition in the build-up to the Olympics. At the Torneo Ciudad De La Coruña on Monday, Linas Kleiza erupted for 24 points in a 90-61 mauling of Portugal. Prior to that triumph, Ramunas Butautus’ team had thrashed Belarus 113-57 and followed that up with two more ...

MADRID (Olympics) – Manu Ginobili played almost 21 minutes and scored 18 points but Argentina fell to Olympic rivals Spain 90-88 on Tuesday in a warm-up for the Beijing Games. There have been fears that Ginobili may not be available for the South Americans in China because of an ankle injury he suffered in the NBA play-offs but on Tuesday the San ...

MADRID (Olympics) – Manu Ginobili played almost 21 minutes and scored 18 points but Argentina fell to Olympic rivals Spain 90-88 on Tuesday in a warm-up for the Beijing Games. There have been fears that Ginobili may not be available for the South Americans in China because of an ankle injury he suffered in the NBA play-offs but on Tuesday the San ...

LEHI (Olympics) - Iran’s players are having a big thrill even before they go to the Beijing Games. That’s the feeling one gets when listening to the players talk about their experience in Utah, where they are training and warming up for the Olympics by playing in the Rocky Mountain Review against NBA and NBDL teams. Iran’s players ...

BEIJING (Olympics) - African champions Angola warmed up for the Beijing Games in style by winning all three of their games at the Borislav Stankovic Cup in China. Alberto Carvalho’s team, which will be in Group B at the Olympics with Greece, Germany, Spain, China and the United States, thrashed a Russia B team 89-70. They followed that up with a ...

BEIJING (Olympics) - African champions Angola warmed up for the Beijing Games in style by winning all three of their games at the Borislav Stankovic Cup in China. Alberto Carvalho’s team, which will be in Group B at the Olympics with Greece, Germany, Spain, China and the United States, thrashed a Russia B team 89-70. They followed that up with a ...