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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/how-china-saved-olympic-womens-basketball-84-81/">How China saved Olympic women’s basketball, 84-81</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted May 2, 2008 at 10:00 AM by Os Davis</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Thank you, Dan, Fan, Feifei, Hanlan, Jiacen, Nan, Xiaoli, Xiaoni, Xiaoyun, Xu and especially Lijie – the dandy dozen who upended Team USA’s ladies in the championship match of the 2008 Good Luck Beijing tournament – rarely is it so OK to be proven wrong, particularly in the sportswriting world. On the other hand, geeks of the games should never lament such breakthroughs as Team China’s, these Great Leaps made by a professional or national team are the necessary punctuation in the long book of history; think the mid-1970s Denver Broncos or when Italy forced the powers-that-be to make rugby’s Five Nations Championship the Six Nations as of 2000. Though SummerOlympian.com is hardly at liberty to pronounce a turning of the tide atop the women’s basketball table, but the…<a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/how-china-saved-olympic-womens-basketball-84-81/">(<a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/how-china-saved-olympic-womens-basketball-84-81/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/how-china-saved-olympic-womens-basketball-84-81/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/how-china-saved-olympic-womens-basketball-84-81/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/archive/category/events/">Events</a>, <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/archive/category/basketball/">Basketball</a>, <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/archive/category/featured-writers/">Featured-Writers</a>, <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/archive/category/os-davis/">Os-Davis</a><br /><br /> </P>