Aug 29

Youth Olympic Games basketball results

Better late than never… here’s a quick roundup of the Youth Olympic Games basketball results that finished recently.

Girls

Final standings:

  1. China
  2. Australia
  3. USA

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Aug 19

The YOG basketball tournament group stages have come to an end after day 5. Eight boys teams and eight girls teams now go forward to play in the quarter finals.

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The Philippines beat South Africa 26-12 to seal SA’s boys’ fate as SA bowed out of the tournament with a won-lost record of 0-4.

The teams that will be progressing are:

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Aug 18

YOG basketballSouth Africa is taking part in the men’s basketball at the Youth Olympic Games, with these being the first ever Games taking place.

South Africa was selected to participate along with 19 other countries, both developing and developed. With SA being drawn in Group D along with the Phillipines, Croatia, the US Virgin Islands and Spain (their senior team is current men’s FIBA world champions), it was never going to be easy.

Progress so far

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Aug 18

Youth Olympic Games 2010The Youth Olympic Games are underway, and if reports are to be believed, the rollout of the new FIBA 33 format basketball tournament has been one of the highlights so far.

From Tom Degun’s article on insidethegames.biz:

“While the majority of the sports at these Youth Olympics are no different in structure to their counterparts at the senior Olympic Games, basketball has decided to be different.

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Apr 16

Here’s a first look at the Singapore basketball team that’ll be representing at the Youth Olympic Games in August (I believe they’re the team in white).

Ain’t Youtube great – getting to scout the other teams from the other side of the world :)

The clip is just over 3 minutes long. There are a couple of good moves in there, and the big guy seems to have speed to complement his size. No idea how these guys compare to the teams from other countries though, but interesting nonetheless.

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Apr 08

Youth Olympic GamesIt’s a big year for basketball!

Along with the FIBA Basketball World Championships to be held in August 2010, basketball will also be included as a sport in the first ever Youth Olympic Games taking place around the same time. And yes, South Africa will have a team there!

So a few key things:

First Youth Olympic Games

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