The State 08 23 2008 U.S. men's basketball team avenges 2004 loss to Argentina

Argentina, 101-81, at Wukesong Olympic Basketball Gymnasium. The Argentines beat Company United states en route to winning the 2004 Olympic gold at Athens. A brief gold-medal atonement is on the string Sunday, with Organization USA enchanting on terrene prizewinner Spain at 2:30 p.m. EDT). Spain recent by rallying preceding Lithuania 91-86. Argentina plays Lithuania for the bronze.

This time, there were no accusations ultimate from the U.S. Onliest admissions that Cuba was besides good, further powerful, extremely experienced, and as well hardboiled to gold star what could be the ending Olympic gold medal in baseball.

The Cubans hit four habitation runs, pounded their archrivals 10-2 in Friday's semifinal and modern to their fifth straight Olympic final. Alexei Ring and Frederich Cepeda everyone blasted a three-run homer in the eighth inning, and none of the five U.S. Cuban bats. Telephone showboated as he rounded the bases with his index finger raised to the sky, and then he and his teammates celebrated in the dugout. That did not sit fresh with the U.S.

This is not the elementary time," said U.S. Davey Johnson. They get a group of boisterous and create a portion of matters we don't condone in the U.S. Nevertheless it's over." And it could be over forever. Baseball was dropped from the aliment for the 2012 London Olympics, so Cuba's gold-medal sport against South Korea takes on additional importance, and the U.S. Japan for bronze, is left with the ill pleasure that it may never again sweep another gold medal. U.S. 1984 and 1988.

It as well continues an impressive showing from USA volleyball, which features the gold medal winners in both men's and women's beach volleyball and has both indoor teams in gold medal matches. The Jamaican sprinters had another enormous night. The men's 4x100m relay foursome dazzled in the evening's finale, with Usain Bolt picking up his third universe create and third gold medal of these Olympics. Jamaica was relatively all the more with the nature entering the third leg.

Then the baton went to Bolt, who broke the relay open. The 100 and 200m area dossier holder handed off to former 100-meter case holder Asafa Powell, who dug toward the stop borderline and crossed in 37.10, breaking the field and Olympic document of 37.40 held by the United States.

Also, Bryan Clay won the men's decathlon with 8,791 points, 240 points ahead of Andrei Krauchanka of Belarus. The conquest gave the United States 102 medals at the 2008 Beijing Games - equalling the U.S. 2004 Athens Games, with two days of competition yet to go. Uutilizing Phil Dalhausser's aptitude and companion Todd Rogers' forbearance and opportunistic play, the American duo defeated Brazil's Marcio Araujo and Fabo Magalhaes 23-21, 17-21, 15-4 for the gold medal Friday at Chaoyang Stadium Beach Volleyball Ground.

First-time Olympians, Rogers, 34, and Dalhausser, 28, jumped absent to an 11-2 margin in the third and decisive place with their complimentary play - Dalhausser with the potency block, Rogers' with the perfectly placed touch shots, The Brazilians seemed rattled, committing unforced errors as the Americans ran absent with the third set, Dalahusser knocking over Rogers with a ferocious chest knob on match point. With Rogers' and Dalhausser's gold, U.S. Summer Games on account of the sport fictional its Olympic debut.

Elsewhere: Faced with growing query approximately if medal-winning Chinese gymnasts were very girlish to compete this month, the International Olympic Commitee has asked the International Gymnastics Federation to glimpse into the theory and "put to rest once and for all the questions," a comittee spokeswoman said.

Press reports, including one in Friday's Times in the United Kingdom, hold accused the Chinese polity of hiding documents that would annex barred women gymnasts such as He Kexin, who won two gold medals in Beijing, from competing. The Times cliffhanger said a U.S.

Mike Walker, establish two documents that had been removed from a Chinese management Mesh stop showing He was apart 14 second childhood old. Olympics rules want gymnasts be 16 oldness dated in an Olympic year. The Chinese women gymnasts won six medals in total, including two gold.

IOC spokesman Giselle Davies, however, said the committee had already received documents such as birth certificates showing the gymnasts were elderly sufficiently to compete. Davies would not specify how manifold gymnasts or which of them were under scrutiny. We're received some dirt which puts the affair to rest," Davies told reporters at a regularly scheduled Friday facts conference. There's no query from our perspective."

Davies said the international federation was working with the Chinese federal federation on the issue. In other events Friday: -The U.S. 1988 with a 10-5 victory over Serbia. Hungary in the gold medal match, scheduled for Sunday. Steve Lopez's tender for his third Olympic gold medal in taekwondo ended early when we was beaten Friday in a quarterfinal match.

He dropped a 2-1 judgment to Italy's Mauro Sarmiento in an 80-kilogram weight assemblage bout that went to a sudden-death extra period, the head generation in five elderliness the 29-year-old has absent a match.