FINAL LATEST MEDAL STANDINGS : BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES

Ask yourself, how did my country do in this year's Olympics?

As for me, I'm not that happy coz the Philippines only got 1 Gold medal and on a non counted event. Its just sad! =(

How about your country? Comments are welcome! ^_^


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USA Men's Basketball wins Gold in Beijing

This was the only medal the 2008 USA Dream Team and the whole USA wanted.

The US team won the Gold medal in this year's 2008 Summer Olympics. They only gave the mightiest men that the NBA has so it is quite obvious that they will win.

USA 118 (Dwyane Wade 27, Kobe Bryant 20, LeBron James 14, Chris Paul 13, Carmelo Anthony 13, )

Spain 107 (Rudy Fernandez 22, Pau Gasol 21, Juan Carlos Navarro 18, Carlos Jiminez 12, Marc Gasol 11, Felipe Reyes 10).

In the end, USA prevailed 118-107. Gripping the Gold medal in the games!

Scores shows that this is a highly defensive match between the two countires. US Team while on play were complaining heavy fouls and bombardment from the Spaniards. This meant a lot of course so they all did their very best. ^_^

A superb game-high 27 points from Dwyane Wade (21 of them in the first half) and 20 from Kobe Bryant the US took the best shots from the Spanish. They led 69-61 at the half, but saw Spain close to within four in the third quarter and two in the final period. Then Bryant nailed a four-point play and the momentum was with the Americans, try as the Spanish might.

And they tried plenty, right till the bitter end. The electric Rudy Fernandez and the towering Pau Gasol were huge for the gallant silver medalists. Repeatedly, the likes of Bryant, Wade and LeBron James had repeated the mantra that this was bigger than anything they'd done in the NBA. This was for their country, they said, and that made it so. After six long years, the USA finally rules the basketball world again. Argentina, even without injured star Manu Ginobili, were too good for Lithuania in the bronze playoff with an 87-85 victory giving them their second straight Games medal after they had won gold in Athens.

LATEST MEDAL STANDINGS : BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES (UPDATED 2:22am Aug 24 PST!!!)

Well, the Philippines won a Gold Medal in Wushu but since it is not a recognized Olympic sport its not going to count in the Medal Standings. Good job though! I am disappointed however because we did not win a single medal that can be counted there.

Willy Wang from the Philippines wins WUSHU gold and lone medal of the Philippines
Wushu is considered as an Olympic demonstration only and not counted in the Medal Tally

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LATEST MEDAL STANDINGS : BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES (UPDATED 8:20am PST!!!)

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Kobe part of the success in the win of the US team vs Australia. The US won in the August 20 game and will vie for the Gold medal in the Olympics' Quarterfinals.

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Japan bashed the United States' 22-game Olympic winning streak Thursday to win its first gold medal in softball. This wasn't the finale the U.S. had in mind. Japan upset the Americans with a whopping 3-1 to win GOLD in the sport.


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LATEST MEDAL STANDINGS : BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES (UPDATED August 20, 7:23am PST!!!)

Casualty Tsohmlee Go bows out of medal contention
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Tshomlee Go lost 1-0 to Ryan Carneli of Australia. Go was in the round of 16 of the men’s 58kg category in Olympic Taek Won Do Wednesday at the Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium.


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China now has 45 Gold medals and ties with US at 79 for number of medals won.

LATEST MEDAL STANDINGS : BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES (UPDATED 10:05pm Aug 18 PST!!!)

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LATEST MEDAL STANDINGS : BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES (UPDATED 1:26am Aug 18 PST!!!)

Beijing Olympics: USA 'Dream Team' proved too strong for Yao Ming and China

The mighty efforts of the tallest man in the competition proved insufficient against the combined power of Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Jason Kidd and the rest of the US Dream Team, who prevailed 101-70 in an impressive show of strength and power that ruthlessly ended the pre-game expectations of the hosts.

US 2008 Dream Team Celebrates after a 101-70 win against favored CHINA
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U.S. also Defeats favored Spain, 119-82 making this dream closer to the top of the podium
Photo by NY Times

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