2 minutes left, Greece 72 - Argentina 76

(Edit: 1'30'', Greece 75 - Argentina 78)

(Edit 2: 45'', Greece 75 - Argentina 80)

(Edit 3: 30'', Greece 78 - Argentina 80)

(Edit 4: Finished! Argentina missed an attack, and with 5'' left Greece missed a 3-point shoot. USA is next )

Yeah, but Greece missed so we will have to Not that we care a lot about it, but I know it means a lot for USA

(Edit: Hehehe, typical, some people are asking to wait for Bolt's antidoping tests... of course, they never doubted Phelps... by this time if it is known Phelps was high on pills, it would be scandalous, so even if he is like a Pac-Man, they will never reveal so)

Gymnastics is always won by the countless men watching worldwide (watching the women, that is). Every man competing in gymnastics loses his dignity and man-card.

WTF is that shit!? Then I guess everyone loses. As you might have figured out I don't actually watch, but if I did you'd know why...

Yeah. But all the other gymnastics shut their mouth because they don't want to be humiliated acknowledging they lost to little girls An explanation would be that they are using the old rules that allowed girls of 14 to participate

As for always won by Russia and China, how can you forget romanian Nadia Comaneci, the first one to get perfect 10.0 score during Olympic games (it is funny because the display was not prepared for 10, it used to go up to 9.9 only, and so they displayed 1.0 and everyone began murmuring until it was explained they meant a 10.0)

First ten ever. And the way she ends the first exercise here is impressive!

Haha. Well, certain events (namely the uneven bars) are easier for younger girls. So it can help your team score to have a few kids to fly around on them because they don't have to compete in the other events.

The other gymnasts are being good sports about it because they know it's not the girls' faults that they live in a communistic country that falsified their passports and forced them at a young age to live a life in the gym away from their families. And they generally feel that the age restriction is dumb anyway, particularly because it's impossible to enforce even when somebody is obviously not sixteen.

TV here said it is because small girls tend to suffer less serious injuries if they fail, therefore they can try bolder exercises. However, Nastia Liukin actually scored as well as He, but did a few more mistakes according to the judges.

Hehehehe Nah, the little Chinese girl who is supposedly 14 years old.

A sidenote: in soccer, it is suspected that African teams put people older than the maximum age (for example, Olympic Games are for sub 23 plus 3 majors, so that it does not compete against the World Cup, but when you see some of the Nigerian players, they look as 30 year old players). TV again explains that in Africa, when a child is born they do not know if he will survive the first years (sad, isn't it?), so they wait until they are three or four to inscribe them. And since they are not really sure of when they were actually born, they write they were born in that year or the year before, when the boy actually goes walking and talking to the government office. That is why they do so well in sub-xx categories, but are not that good in major tournaments (because most players are already over 30... Cameroon in the Italy World Cup in 1994 had very old people, Roger Milla was like 42).

Check on the soccer finals, compare our forward Agüero with any of their defenders.

Somebody should explain to China why women are even in the Olympics... 18+ please. <sarcasm/>

Argentine female hockey won 3-1 against Germany and got the bronze medal, same as last Olympics. Germany was the Olympic champion.

Basketball, Argentina-US in around three hours. And then the only match that matters, soccer final in around 15 hours, Argentina-Nigeria.

(Edit: Jamaica destroyed the 4x100 world record too!)

(Edit 2: Spain to the basketball finals. Now comes US-Argentina!)

(Edit 3: Hmm... Argentina failed both 3-points shoots so far... that is the only way they can win...)

(Edit 4: US is missing 3-point shoots too, that is good And apparently US can walk more than 3 steps without bouncing the ball )

(Edit 5: First quarter, US 30 - Argentina 12)

(Edit 6: Second quarter, US 49 - Argentina 40, great quarter for us, forcing US to take 3-point shoots which they are missing most. Things are going better, after US led by 21 points)

Argentina is playing zone, forcing US to try 3-point shoots. Ginobilli reached 3 fouls during the first quarter, which is pretty strange for any player, and even more for him who is not usually that kind of player. He may rest a bit more, half third quarter, since he twisted his ankle.

Bench is giving over twice the amount of points as the initial pack, so I am betting Ginobilli and Nocioni will stay out some more.

(Edited: Nocioni in, Ginobilli still resting)

(Edit 2: US is playing zone now, Argentina is not taking 3-point shoots yet)

US 63 - Argentina 46, taking a good advantage again. Ginobilli is not in the field, nor the bench.