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Olympic Survey (Aug 23)
23 August 2004
Filipovic and Zoric qualified for semifinals in men's K2 1000m. Men's basketball team lost a close game for the fourth time and will play winless Angola for 11th place. Men's water polo and volleyball teams advanced to quarterfinals.
Mo Ke of China (L) fouls Predrag Drobnjak of Serbia and Montenegro
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Reuters
CANOE/KAYAK
Men's K2 1000m - Heat 2 6. Ognjen Filipovic/Dragan Zoric 3:19.299*
*Qualified for semifinals
BASKETBALL
Preliminary Round, Group A, Day 5 Serbia&Montenegro - China 66-67
MATCH REPORT: The emotional win put China into the quarterfinals, matching its best Olympic finish ever. It also meant no chance at a medal for the two-time defending world champions. Yao scored 27 points and made the decisive free throws with 28 seconds to play, leading a Chinese team that had lost three games by at least 25 points.
Serbia-Montenegro lost a close game for the fourth time and finished last in its six-team group - a far cry from the celebrating it did as Yugoslavia in Athens at the 1998 World Championships and again in Indianapolis in 2002.
China (2-3), which finished eighth in the 1996 Olympics, will play unbeaten Lithuania in Thursday's quarterfinals.
Serbia-Montenegro, which lost two games by one point and another by three, will play winless Angola for 11th place on Tuesday.
Both teams struggled on offense in the fourth quarter.
Serbia-Montenegro had four field goals in the final 10 minutes, all 3-pointers. Only two of those came in the final 7 minutes.
China, which trailed 60-53 with 7:09 to play, tied the game by keeping the ball out of Yao's hands and letting others do the work. His first shot of the fourth quarter came with just under a minute to play, 45 seconds after he had tied the game at 63 with two free throws.
Yao made two free throws with 28 seconds left to give China the lead for good. Serbia-Montenegro worked the shot clock down and Dejan Bodiroga's jumper with 4 seconds left bounced off the rim and out of bounds.
Du Feng made two free throws with 3.2 seconds left for the 67-63 lead.
When the buzzer sounded, Yao, usually so stoic on the court, ran to the center circle and jumped around with his teammates.
The players from Serbia-Montenegro, meanwhile, walked off the court stunned by a second straight poor Olympic performance. It finished sixth in Sydney, but that effort was sandwiched between the world championships.
Yao was 9-for-12 from the field and grabbed 13 rebounds.
Predrag Drobnjak led Serbia-Montenegro with 17 points.
(AP)
11th place match (Aug 24): Serbia&Montenegro vs. Angola
VOLEYBALL
Preliminary Round, Group A, Day 5 Serbia&Montenegro - Greece 3-2
Serbia and Montenegro won 1st place in Group A and will face Russia in quarterfinals, on August 25.
WATER POLO
Preliminary Round, Group A, Day 5 Serbia&Montenegro - United States of America 9-4
Serbia and Montenegro won 2nd place in Group A and will face Spain in quarterfinals, on August 25.
Men's K2 1000m - Heat 2 6. Ognjen Filipovic/Dragan Zoric 3:19.299*
*Qualified for semifinals
BASKETBALL
Preliminary Round, Group A, Day 5 Serbia&Montenegro - China 66-67
MATCH REPORT: The emotional win put China into the quarterfinals, matching its best Olympic finish ever. It also meant no chance at a medal for the two-time defending world champions. Yao scored 27 points and made the decisive free throws with 28 seconds to play, leading a Chinese team that had lost three games by at least 25 points.
Serbia-Montenegro lost a close game for the fourth time and finished last in its six-team group - a far cry from the celebrating it did as Yugoslavia in Athens at the 1998 World Championships and again in Indianapolis in 2002.
China (2-3), which finished eighth in the 1996 Olympics, will play unbeaten Lithuania in Thursday's quarterfinals.
Serbia-Montenegro, which lost two games by one point and another by three, will play winless Angola for 11th place on Tuesday.
Both teams struggled on offense in the fourth quarter.
Serbia-Montenegro had four field goals in the final 10 minutes, all 3-pointers. Only two of those came in the final 7 minutes.
China, which trailed 60-53 with 7:09 to play, tied the game by keeping the ball out of Yao's hands and letting others do the work. His first shot of the fourth quarter came with just under a minute to play, 45 seconds after he had tied the game at 63 with two free throws.
Yao made two free throws with 28 seconds left to give China the lead for good. Serbia-Montenegro worked the shot clock down and Dejan Bodiroga's jumper with 4 seconds left bounced off the rim and out of bounds.
Du Feng made two free throws with 3.2 seconds left for the 67-63 lead.
When the buzzer sounded, Yao, usually so stoic on the court, ran to the center circle and jumped around with his teammates.
The players from Serbia-Montenegro, meanwhile, walked off the court stunned by a second straight poor Olympic performance. It finished sixth in Sydney, but that effort was sandwiched between the world championships.
Yao was 9-for-12 from the field and grabbed 13 rebounds.
Predrag Drobnjak led Serbia-Montenegro with 17 points.
(AP)
11th place match (Aug 24): Serbia&Montenegro vs. Angola
VOLEYBALL
Preliminary Round, Group A, Day 5 Serbia&Montenegro - Greece 3-2
Serbia and Montenegro won 1st place in Group A and will face Russia in quarterfinals, on August 25.
WATER POLO
Preliminary Round, Group A, Day 5 Serbia&Montenegro - United States of America 9-4
Serbia and Montenegro won 2nd place in Group A and will face Spain in quarterfinals, on August 25.
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