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The following medals were awarded in baseball at the 2008 Olympic Games

MEN

Gold – South Korea

Silver – Cuba

Bronze – U.S.

The following medals were awarded in basketball at the 2008 Olympic Games

MEN

Gold – U.S.

Silver – Spain

Bronze – Argentina

WOMEN

Gold – U.S.

Silver – Australia

Bronze – Russia

The following medals were awarded in beach volleyball at the 2008 Olympic Games

MEN’

Gold – Todd Rogers/Philip Dalhausser (U.S.)

Silver – Fabio Luiz/Marcio Araujo (Brazil)

Bronze – Ricardo/Emanuel (Brazil)

WOMEN

Gold – Kerri Walsh/Misty May-Treanor (U.S.)

Silver – Tian Jia/Wang Jie (China)

Bronze – Xue Chen/Zhang Xi (China)

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The United States topped off its undefeated performance in the 2008 Olympic Men’s Basketball tournament with a gold medal win over Spain, 118-107, on Sunday, August 24.
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Title: Olympics Live: USA vs. Spain

Date: Sunday August 24, 2008
Time: 8:15AM CEST

From Yahoo sports news-
LeBron James finished his free throw contest with Chris Paul, then hustled over to the media surrounding Kobe Bryant.

Two more questions for Mr. Bryant, James told reporters.

It was time to practice. For the last time.

More than three years after coming together in Las Vegas as the inaugural U.S. national team program, James and teammates worked out for the final time Saturday. Looming beneath the anticipation of Sunday’s gold-medal game against Spain was a sense that something special was coming to an end.

“I said a couple of days ago, we all want to get the gold medal. We want to get to this game. We want to celebrate; we want all the good things that come with it,” Dwyane Wade said. “But at the end of the day, knowing that we have to split up, and a lot of guys are not going to play together for a while, if ever again, it’s kind of a little bittersweet.”

Some players—guesses among the team range anywhere from five to eight— could be back in 2012. Even so, it can’t be as good as the first time.

Wade, James and Carmelo Anthony, who came into the NBA together five years ago, have been teammates longer than they have been with many players on their NBA clubs. Mike Krzyzewski has coached them longer than he has some players at Duke these days.

“We have great friendships,” Krzyzewski said. “There’s no question that we’re all very close friends, and from a coaching perspective, I’ve learned a lot from coaching these guys and the guys I’m coaching” with.

The story is familiar by now. With the Americans desperate to halt a slide that had dropped them from their loft atop world basketball, Jerry Colangelo was appointed managing director of USA Basketball in 2005. Feeling the United States could no longer expect to win just by bringing a group of players together shortly before the start of a competition, he created the national team, compiling a roster that now includes more than 30 players and requiring them to make a three-year commitment.

James, Wade and Anthony all quickly signed on, convinced that this experience would be better than the misery they endured while playing as NBA rookies in the 2004 Olympics. It wasn’t always great—the bronze medals they won in the 2006 world championship were no better than the ones they left Athens with—but they were poised to end things on a memorable note Sunday.

“I’ve been with D-Wade and LeBron for four years. We went through ups and downs throughout our four years with Team USA and to win this gold medal would just make them moments that we went through that much better,” Anthony said. “We were almost forced to be with each other … coming in the same year into the draft in ‘03. Me and LeBron, we gained a friendship in high school and we just stuck it out.”

James, Anthony and Dwight Howard are the only ones who have played in all the competitions over the last three summers, but many more have been a part of the program even when they weren’t playing. Wade, Chris Paul and Chris Bosh all trekked to Las Vegas last summer to be around the team even though they were out with injuries, just as Bryant did in ‘06.

With the same core of players around every year, Krzyzewski said this team is more prepared than recent U.S. ones, with more time for game planning and strategy details that was previously wasted on getting the players familiar with each other.

And unlike the failed chemistry experiment in Athens, where the players were thrown together so late that they couldn’t go much beyond learning each other’s names, this team has become close now. And seeing the results this time will surely convince other players to make a similar commitment in the future.

Colangelo said he’d heard perhaps half the team would be back. Howard, Paul, Bosh and Carlos Boozer all said they would be in London four years from now if asked, Anthony said he’d strongly consider it, and his longtime running mates James and Wade won’t rule it out.

So the national team program has caught the Americans up in international basketball—and maybe even put them ahead of the game for next time.

“The whole three years have been great,” Wade said. “So I’m sure guys that were questioning if they would ever play again will probably play in ‘12. We’ve got probably eight guys on this team that will only be 26, 27 by then at the most, so the core of this team will be back for sure.”

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In the 2008 Olympics
Australia enters the gold medal game, like the USA, undefeated at 7-0. In preliminary group play, the Aussies topped Belarus 83-64, Brazil 80-65, South Korea 90-63, Latvia 96-73 and Russia 75-55. Australia advanced as Group A’s No. 1 seed and downed Czech Republic 79-46 in the quarterfinals and China 90-56 in the semifinals to advance to Saturday’s final. Lauren Jackson, a two-time WNBA MVP, led the Opals with 18 points against Belarus, 30 points against Latvia, 16 points against Russia, and 17 against Czech Republic. Laura Summerton tallied a team-high 18 points against Brazil, 2006 World Championship MVP Penny Taylor scored 18 against South Korea and Belinda Snell recorded 16 points against China.

Overall, Jackson leads four players averaging double figures for Australia with 16.9 ppg. along with 8.4 rpg.; followed by Suzy Batkovic with 12.4 ppg. and 8.9 rpg.; Taylor with 12.0 ppg. and 7.2 rpg. and Snell with 10.9 ppg. Kristi Harrower leads the tournaments individuals with 4.8 apg., while the Aussies are shooting 42.8 percent from the field, 30.2 percent from 3-point and 75.3 percent from the free throw line to win games by an average of 24.6 ppg. Australia is holding opponents to 35.1 percent from the field to rank No. 1 in the tournament for field goal percentage defense, and also ranks No. 1 in offensive rebounds (130), defensive rebounds (218), rebounding margin (+16.1 rpg.) and rebounding offense (49.7 rpg.).

Aug. 9: Australia 83, Belarus 64 • Stats
Aug. 11: Australia 80, Brazil 65 • Stats
Aug. 13: Australia 90, South Korea 63 • Stats
Aug. 15: Australia 96, Latvia 73 • Stats
Aug. 17: Australia 75, Russia 55 • Stats
Aug. 19:Australia 79, Czech Republic 46 • Stats
Aug. 21: Australia 90, China 56 • Stats

A Little History
Australia earned its 2008 Olympic berth by capturing the gold medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Brazil. It was Australia’s first gold medal ever in Olympic or World Championship play, and they’re gunning to dethrone the USA, three-time defending Olympic gold medalist, in Beijing.

The U.S. and Australia have met four times at the Olympics, most recently in the Athens Olympics gold medal game where the USA came away with the 74-63 victory and the top spot on the podium. The USA also topped Australia in the 2000 gold medal game in Sydney, securing a 76-54 victory. In fact, the U.S. has never lost to Australia in Olympic or World Championship play and owns an overall 13-0 record against the Opals in those two events.

After not medaling at an Olympics or World Championship until Atlanta in 1996, Australia has been on the medal stand in each of the last five ‘majors.’ The Opals finished with a silver medal at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, bronze at the ‘96 Games and bronze medals at the 1998 and 2002 World Championships before claiming the top spot in 2006.

Many of the Aussies are familiar faces to the U.S. squad. Not only have the two teams met several times recently, but many Australians have competed in the WNBA over the past few years, including Suzy Batkovic, Tully Bevilaqua, Kristi Harrower, Lauren Jackson, Erin Phillips, Laura Summerton and Penny Taylor. Sue Bird is not only a teammate of Lauen Jackson’s with the Seattle Storm, she and Diana Taurasi compete alongside Jackson on Spartak Moscow in Russia during the winters. Cappie Pondexter and Diana Taurasi teamed up with Taylor to capture the 2007 WNBA crown with the Phoenix Mercury. Additionally, Tamika Catchings and Bevilaqua are teammates on the Indiana Fever.

Most recently, these two teams met in exhibition play on Aug. 5 in the 2008 FIBA Diamond Ball gold medal game, with the USA coming away victorious 71-67. The game was a typical fight to the finish match. Lisa Leslie led the way for the USA with a 14-point, 10-reboound double-double, while Taylor score 19 points for Australia.

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USA-Russia 89-68

Team USA showed their strength Sunday as the world’s top basketball team powered past European champion Russia 89-68 before an energised crowd in Shanghai in an Olympic Games warm-up match.

The US side, hoping to mesh an arsenal of NBA stars ahead of next week’s Beijing Games, fully displayed their superior shooting skills while smothering the Russians with a stifling defence.

Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant led with 19 points, while Denver Nugget Carmelo Anthony scored 17 and Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat added 16.

Team USA jumped out to a 20-point lead early in the third quarter, with Bryant leading numerous drives to the basket that either resulted in him scoring or setting up an open shot for a teammate.

For those who have been waiting for over 4 years, it is finally back. Now, the USA Basketball Team is better than ever, and they plan on taking Beijing by storm. Here is just a preview of what’s to come in the next few weeks.