OS Beijing 2008 Paralympics Olympics Pekin

Vyacheslav Glaskov failed the medical examination, after an elbow injury that necessitated his transfer to the hospital. The cancelled semi-final against Chinese Zhang Zilei will be in favor of the local boxing champion who just made it into the final game.

Who placed a bid on that??!

Just like for all the boxing tournaments in Beijing’s Olympics, ranked 3^rd and 4^th will both get bronze medals, and it will be the same in Glaskov’s case.

 In the other semi-final, David Price from Britain faces the Italian Roberto Cammarelle.

The winner of the match joining Italy and Britain, will get a chance to play on gold against The Chinese national hero Zhang Zilei.

Zhang will definitely have a tough dual to go through, and can’t bet on another opponent’s injury this time.

For the crowds and TV viewers, 96 minutes of anticipation and mental strain were needed to hear the final whistle and see the winner of this football carnival! As for the players, it was definitely the longest minutes of their lives, thus the greatest feeling ever for the Americans who won again in Olympics, beating Brazil by 1 goal after 6 minutes from the additional period.

The 1^st 30 minute of the match illustrated the intense fear and respect shared among the 2 poles of the game, with 22 ladies fighting for every ball and a crowded defensive area at each side of the field. What started like an American domination was terminated by a parade of skills from Marta and Cristianne, who made the Yankees get into a very stressful 20 minutes. Luckily, the score was 0 to 0 at the break and no damage was made.

USA’s won 3 Football gold medals in 4 Olympics; 2 rewards in a row (Beijing’s2008- Athens2004)

FIFA’s best player of the year, Marta, was closely guarded and insistently double teamed with every ball possession, in order to paralyze the master Samba’s key to success. German policy of bugging Marta was a good placed bet to keep her away from scoring.

Both teams proved to earn a final game, and went into over time; another chance to end the game before the penalty lucky kicks. Extra time is an advantage to the North Americans who proved to have a better physical endurance in the last minutes. Carli Lloyd put the surplus of power and energy into action and stroke Brazil’s web (96th minute) with the most precious goal in Beijing’s Olympics.

Simply, it was gold worthy goal, and that’s all what mattered in fact for the BACK to BACK champions. As for the Samba girls, a nation’s bidding on them to achieve what the men’s team couldn’t do failed again; Beijing’s a disaster for Brazilian football, yet, a paradise for the USA.

World cup winners Spain had to win this game against Croatia, to preserve their image and to move on into the semi-finals. What was bid on to be an intense and close basketball game, turned into a complete dominance for the Spaniards (12-1 run in 1^st quarter), leading in the 4 quarters and winning at the end 72-59.

Spain’s players just bought the 1^st basketball ticket into the semi-final game of the tournament here in Beijing’s Olympics, led by Pau Gasol’s 20 points and 20 rebounds.

Rebounding was in favor of the world champions (36-29), clearly jumping higher on defensive and offensive recoveries, allowing them to score many points under the basket, not to mention the 3 pointers; Juan Calderon made 2 out of 2 before being substituted, a growing injury that compelled the coach to replace him. Despite the Spanish worries of their team mate’s spoil, they kept on focusing on their game, taking advantage of the pre-built score difference.

Croatia’s betting on 3 points shots aimed to dislocate the Spanish defense under the basket, but with their razor-sharp shooter Marko Popovic on the injury list, every long range shot was twisting away

Croatia made 26% (5 of 19 shots) from long range,

And a field goals average of 38%

At the final shrill, Spain’s basketball jerseys celebrated jumping into the semi finals, to play against Lithuania.

In a TV interview ahead of this basketball game, Pau was asked about the match with the Dream team, where Spain was fiercely destroyed, giving the sports news a delight story to talk about. The NBA star Gasol said that he is over it now, and that his team wasn’t up to their usual level, assuring all the Spanish fans that if a 2^nd game against the USA was to be played, it will definitely have a different scenario. A bidding that looks a little bit provocative from the Spanish star, maybe a message to the Dream team from a side, and to the fans of betting to think twice before picking a side on the betting panels or on sports betting sites.

As ferocious as the men’s team, ladies of the United States are showing no kindness against any team, giving everything they got to crash any opponent. This time, it was New Zealand’s time to get on knees.

96-60, a diversity of 36 points took the undefeated in group B and 3 times champion into the quarter finals in what’s expected to be a trouble-free game against Koreans.

Kiwis that were forced into 21 turnovers couldn’t stop the waves of offensive strength and smashing into their rim; 4 basketball jerseys from US ladies scored in double figures: Tina Thompson reached 15, Katie Smith 13, Seimone 12 and Catchings 11. Promising young Center Fowles added 8 points and 6 rebounds to support her team mates.

Anne Donovan, Yankees coach expressed her thrilled attitude towards her team, especially when it comes to the player’s concentration from the 1^st seconds until the last ones, despite the score’s difference. 

Looking at former results in Beijing’s Olympics, the USA looks much more trustful, and is definitely a winning bet in this game. Basketball tickets are almost sold out for the next games to come; sports news is highly contributing in sales, due to their effect on TV viewers and readers.

In a way to make up their losses in quarter finals, both American sisters were willing to bring back the gold with them for a 2^nd consecutive time after Sydney’s 2000.

Spain’s Anabel Medina and Virginia Ruano weren’t so tough to beat! They

gave their opponents an easy game allowing them to leave Beijing with a gold medal.

6-2  6-0 score declared Serena Williams and Venus Williams as women tennis champions on double. Beijing’s Olympics isn’t so frustrating for Serena and Venus who weren’t up to the level during the singles tour.

Betting sites and sports news were putting pressure on the American duo, whose performance wasn’t as usual… luckily, they responded in the best possible way:

We’re back to back, and that’s our 2^nd successive!

Unbeaten and dominating Spaniard Rafael Nadal, just topped the tennis world ranking. After winning the French open and Wimbledon, the Spanish is now being crowned as the tennis tournament winner of the Beijing’s Olympics. thousands of spectators were filling their seats many hours before the start, to witness the final event of men’ tennis tournament.

6-3  7-6  6-3 a clear supremacy against Chile’s Fernando Gonzalez who saved 3 match points, only to postpone the inevitable.

The 22 years old Spanish will be designated as the world leader in tennis ranking, putting an end to Roger Federer’s domination for the past 4 and half years. Nadal is the first Spanish who brings home a golden reward in tennis.

Almost being added to the trail and long line of knocked out favorites, Djokovic managed to re-take the lead after losing the 1^st set to Gael Monfils. The win is listed as an expected outcome and anticipated actually in order to meet Rafael Nadal in the semis.

In another game of destiny, the world’s number 2 Nadal over came Jurgen Melzer   6-0  6-4 and moved again in the Beijing’s Olympics, with stability and commandment.

Nadal is showing a great amount of determination and sense of achievement, heading to stay on top of the favorites in China’s games, and willing to take the number 1 rank, out of Federer’s long term reign.

Sports tickets are being sold out for every Nadal’s game, and that, logically speaking, peaks him to be in the finals. Odds and sports betting websites meet with my logic, placing the seeded 2 in LARGE bold characters.