Re: Olympic groups chosen--AP report

["Greg Odegaard" <grodeg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Off topic, but why doesn't the US Baseball Team get an auto bid to the next
years Olys given they won the last gold?  They got bumped out as most of us
may know by Mexico a few days back and won't play then next summer.

Thanks,
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Snoopy the Celtics Beagle" <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <celtics@xxxxxxxx>; <Celticsstuffgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 9:12 AM
Subject: Olympic groups chosen--AP report


> MADRID, Spain -- The gold medalist U.S. men's basketball team was placed
in
> the same group with European champion Lithuania during Saturday's draw for
> next year's Athens Olympics.
>
> The United States, which is the 2003 champion of the Americas and will
> feature a team of NBA players, and Lithuania are joined in Group B with
> Angola, Australia, Greece and Puerto Rico.
>
> Serbia-Montenegro, the 2002 world champion, and China are in Group A with
> New Zealand, Italy, Spain, and Argentina.
>
> The draw was designed so neither group would have three teams from one
> continent. The United States and Serbia-Montenegro were kept apart.
>
> Besides host Greece, the teams qualified from continental championships.
> After playing each other in the group, the top four teams from each
advance
> to the quarterfinals.
>
> Each group winner faces the fourth-place team from the other group in the
> quarterfinals while the second-place team meets the No. 3 finisher from
the
> other group. The tournament begins Aug. 15.
>
> At the Sydney Olympics, an NBA-led U.S. team defeated France 85-75 for the
> gold medal.
>
>
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