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From: sahayman@watcgl.UUCP (Steve Hayman)
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Subject: Olympic Basketball
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Date: Fri, 20-Jul-84 20:38:25 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 20 20:38:25 1984
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Canada's Olympic basketball team has just won a 4-country 
round-robin warmup tournament by beating the Defending Olympic
Champion, Yugoslavia, twice in two nights.  Three times in
a row, if you count last year's University Games.

So who does Sports Illustrated think are the main threats at the
Olympics (apart from the Americans)?  Spain, Italy and Yugoslavia.
Fine.  Well, they won't be expecting us... SI didn't think
Gaetan Boucher was a medal threat either.

Anyways, obviously I'm not an impartial observer but I think Canada
can do well this year.  The team has been together for years, has
12 offenses and 13 defenses they can use and have to be buoyed by
a big win in this recent tournament (which also featured Italy and
Australia).

All I've heard about the US team's tune-ups is that they beat the
NBA "all-stars".  Has the American team played any international
games yet?  

It's not exactly worth taking a poll to see who everyone's favourite
teams are, but I'll throw in my two cents worth by saying that
the medal winners will be...

Men's            Women's

Canada           Canada
USA              China
Yugoslavia       USA

Of course this is alphabetical order only :-)

Other opinions?

Steve Hayman
University of Waterloo Warriors Band
The Official Band of the Canadian Olympic Basketball Team    (seriously!)