Olympics 2008: Basketball - Look out for Luthuania as karma rebounds on Spain

Olympics: Look out for Lithuania as karma rebounds on Spain's basketballers Mauling by the US followed Spaniards' 'slitty-eyes' faux pas, but both could be eclipsed in the medal reckoning. Meanwhile, Britain builds for 2012 "King Juan Carlos, Raul, Julio Iglesias, Penelope Cruz, Rafael Nadal, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, can you hear me? Your boys took a hell of a beating!" What, of course, the late great Norwegian commentator Bjørge Lillelien would have screamed if he had been commentating on the Olympic Games group clash of the titans between the US and Spain last week that the self-styled Redeem Team won by a crushing 119-82. Just like the old days. Except many, your columnist included, thought this would be the day that all those vehement boasts of re-ordained American dominance would hit the buffers. How wrong we were.... [read full story]