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Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics was the seventeenth appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event. It was held from 9 August to 24 August 2008. Competitions were held at the Wukesong Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China. [1]
All games were held at the Beijing Olympic Basketball Gymnasium. The United States , nicknamed the " Redeem Team ", defeated Spain in the gold medal game, finishing the tournament undefeated and winning the gold medal for the first time since 2000 , while Argentina , the defending Olympic champions who lost to the U.S. in the semifinals, won ...
The USA Men's Basketball Team on August 10, 2008. The men's national basketball team of the United States won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , China. They qualified for the Olympics by winning the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship held in Las Vegas, Nevada .
The Americans have won 17 of the 21 Olympic gold medals in 5x5 basketball since the event made its debut at the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a medal sport. Team USA has won gold in the past five ...
In the 1972 Olympics, the final game between the United States and the Soviet Union was a controversial one, as the game's final three seconds were replayed three times by a FIBA (International Basketball Federation) official without the authority to do so, before the Soviet Union won their first gold medal, which would have been won by the ...
USA overcame the largest points deficit (-17) to win in Olympic competition [44] Game 6: France: W 98–87 +11: Gold Medal Final: USA wins gold medal (17) Tournament totals: 6–0 record; 105.3 points per game; +19 average point differential
A total of 1,881 individual athletes won medals. Chinese athletes won the most gold medals with 48 (100 total), and the United States won the most total medals with 112 (including 36 gold). [10] Athletes from 87 countries won medals, while 55 nations won at least one gold medal, both setting new records for Olympic Games. [11]
Natalie Coughlin won 6 medals in Beijing, the most for a female Olympic swimmer. [10] Dara Torres, who won 3 silver medals after her eight-year absence, became the oldest Olympic swimmer to win a medal, at age 41. [11] Gymnast Nastia Liukin became the third U.S. female to win a gold medal in individual all-around event. [12]