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.

Thriller game joined the dual striped white and blue teams; maybe the most beautiful match in Beijing until now. Sports news will definitely talk a lot about it, while the thriller movie kept Sports betting sites confused about the winner’s identity.

Un-ended until the final seconds, everything was possible, especially an equalizer for Spanioulis whose ball rimmed out in his way to level the game and go into an over time. Unfortunately for the Greek star, Argentina’s efforts paid off in the end, winning by 2 points 80-78.

Ginobily led the game with 24 points, 6 of 13 from long range. Argentina scored 14 out of 32 from long range.

The semi final will place the USA in face of Argentina in a South American derby… although Argentineans’ chance of winning is scrawny, thus they will be determined to give their fans a first class basketball game.

Some are betting on surprises in the game, placing bids over Argentina who is definitely under huge pressure. Playing against the Dream Team is a bit unfair in the semi-finals; they think they deserve to meet in a final game.

Carlos Gongora couldn’t handle the enthusiasm and the motivation of India’s new hero, who was fighting to get into the national books as the 1^st fighter to earn a medal in boxing.

Elephants country, who was betting on her boxing fighter, was delighted by the victory and the qualification, with its eyes on the semi-final: who knows? Maybe Vijender can affect the sports betting sites again!

Ecuador’s boxer, who was eliminated, clearly expressed his pride in getting so far, and that he’ll be preparing for the next games in 2012.

As for Vijender, whose job is an inspector, reflected all his achievements to his parents’ prayers and to his coach, who in fact, did a pretty nice job.

India’s other hope, Jitender, of bringing another medal back home was gone after his loss against the veteran and experienced Russian Georgy Balakshin whose qualification to the final 4 is his 1^st after being eliminated 4 times in world championships and once in 2004’s games of Athens.

It seems that Yao Ming’s suffering from Chinese sports news will not be over soon, blaming the NBA center of Houston Rockets and pointing at him as a disappointing out-performer.

Chinese Nation betting on Yao’s domination under the opponent’s baskets was surprised to see their local team struggle to go through into the quarter finals, after a very bad show in the 1^st round.

Lithuania, leader of group A in preliminaries and a favorite of playing the final game didn’t have much difficulty during the 40 minutes. The European team eased itself by taking the lead since the beginning, growing a difference of 9 points at the break, and increasing it to 26 dots within the final whistle while sending the Dragons out of the tournament.

Beijing’s semi-final is Lithuania’s 5^th final 4

In a row

3rd quarter was the game’s turning point as they broke free scoring and taking advantage of 2^nd chances while the Chinese defense was unorganized at all. Despite Yao’s 19 points and 7 boards, Lithuania’s team-play on offense was bringing down the China wall of giants, not to mention the long range shots of Sarunas rimming in  5 out of 6 and leading the scoring sheet by 23.

Downtown attempts:

Lithuania averaged 42% (13/31)

China averaged 19% (4/21)

2 points trials:

66% for Lithuania

47% for China

Lithuania’s triumph today, settles a European semi-final against Spain. Spanish line up is trying to preserve its image of world champions what makes the game promising and intense. Sports news in Spain are putting a lot of pressure on their national team, that earlier in preliminaries was facing severe critics due to their humiliating loss against the USA. Lithuania’s bid will be on stopping Pau’s domination, as a key to winning while the Spaniards’ concern will be the coverage of their 3 points lane.

Odds and expectations are wide open with both teams capable of creating “bolt from the blue” and playing for Beijing’s gold! Basketball tickets are on the way of being sold out, while some grapevines mentionned black marketing!

Both sides’ coaches declared ahead of this semi-final, that errors aren’t allowed, neither betting on the opponents’ lack of luck now! Talk is cheap, what really matters are the actions!

Brazil’s massacring the Germans 4-1 is an upside down in football’s planet, a humiliation for the world champions who were totally dominated….

Nevertheless, for every consequence there’s a cause! This time, it was Pele, the legendary football player! Or shall I call her Marta?

The FIFA woman best player of the year, newly surnamed as females’ Pele, and orchestra’s chief, was the architect behind all the Brazilian sketches against the Deutschland

Despite a European strong start, a close defense on Marta and a goal by Birgit Prinz in 10^th minute, the samba girls were nothing but offended, and suddenly… somewhat set them ON! Green light for the yellow jerseys, who responded to the USA’s domination in the first twenty minutes, by a series of attacks where Marta’s intention was to be a magnet for the German defense and pulling them towards her, keeping a team mate free to advance… Germans fell for the trick, and Marta passed a decisive ball to Formiga who settled the score (49^th minute) sending her team into a relaxing break!

What came after the half was twice as good as the 1^st shift of the game. Brazil’s reputation of thrilling the crowds came true once again when Cristianne scored the 2^nd for the canaries.

It was clear that Brazil was full of class and creativity. What else can u expect when you have a Marta and a Cristianne on the field? Germans could do nothing but watch the Brazilians dance and enjoy their times… a joy that was enormous with Marta’s third Goal (53^rd minute) and Cristianne’s extra dot (76^th minute) in a counter attack launched by Marta.

Brazil’s now so close to gold, and plays the winner of USA Vs Japan, while Germans travel to Beijing in a trial to collect bronze.

Ronaldinho! That’s the most repeated word on the mouth of every N.Z. defender in the lineup. He definitely wanted to get on the news and end the critics, not to mention the last bad season with Barcelona.

A 5-0 score, in a one sided football competition. 90 minutes of South American Showtime, to please the crowds, who weren’t kept bored at all, since Brazil’s Anderson scored in the 1^st 3 minutes. And to beat all expected bets and odds, Pato added a goal; followed by 2 more from Ronaldinho and A 5^th goal completed the party. Everyone is getting tickets to enjoy the Brazilian show, and that’s what they are getting!

Ronaldinho contributed by scoring twice(free kick and a penalty shot), in what looked like a video game and a training for the Brazilian team that is leading the group now by 9 points! A quarter-final
game is now insured, with 1 more game to go against China.

The new Italian league player (AC Milan) looked like dancing on samba rhythm music, sending “panic” to all the defenses of the world: Beware, I’m back!

Italian fans, especially Milano’s football addicted supporters are definitely delighted to see such effectiveness and performance from Ronaldinho, man of the match!