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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 ...

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 ...

CACERES (Torneo Extremadura) - Spain hammered a Victor Khryapa-less Russia 91-56 in the last game of the Torneo Extremadura – a warm-up event for the Beijing Games. Khryapa, one of the leading players on Russia’s gold-medal winning side at EuroBasket 2007, isn’t able to play right now because of an ankle injury that is threatening to ...

ATHENS (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - Nikos Zisis suffered a shoulder injury in Greece’s win over Puerto Rico on Saturday night but is expected to recover in time to play at the Beijing Games   Zisis had an MRI which confirmed the 25-year old guard has a second degree acromioclavicular injury.   Greece coach Panagiotis Yannakis, ...

ATHENS (FIBA Press Release) - Upon completion of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men in Athens, Greece, the field of the 12 participant men's national teams at the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is now finalized. Germany, winner of tonight's Final of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men, has joined Croatia and Greece (the ...

ATHENS (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men) - Germany beat Puerto Rico 96-82 on Sunday in the last game of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament to claim the final place on offer for the Beijing Games. Dirk Nowitzki had 32 points and nine rebounds for the Germans, who ...

ATHENS (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) – Who is going to win the third ticket? Croatia and Greece have already packed for Beijing, and the question is, who will follow them on the Silk Road: Germany, or Puerto Rico? The Germans crave for this qualification, and don’t try to hide it. They long to dedicate it to Dirk Nowitzki (30, ...

ATHENS (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) – Puerto Rico coach Manolo Cintron has confirmed that Carlos Arroyo will not play on Sunday against Germany in the final game of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament. The side that wins will advance to the Beijing Games while the losing team will go home for the summer. NBA star Arroyo, Puerto ...

SALT LAKE CITY (Olympics) - Iran earned the chance of a lifetime when they won the 2007 FIBA Asia Championship to clinch a spot at the Beijing Games. Now they’re trying to make the most it by warming up for the Olympics in the United States. Indeed, Iran are training in Utah and taking part in the Rocky Mountain Review against NBA and NBADL ...

ATHENS (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) – Greece reconfirmed their standing as one of the leading sides in international basketball with an 88-63 blowout win over Puerto Rico on Saturday to clinch a place in the Beijing Games. Dimitris Diamantidis led six players in double figures with 15 points in their semi-final triumph over Manolo ...

ATHENS (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) – Germany got 30 points and 13 rebounds from Dirk Nowitzki but Croatia overcame his heroic performance and won the semi-final at the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament on Saturday in Athens to reach the Beijing Games. Looking to return to the glory days that once saw greats like Toni Kukoc and the late ...