11.   Her first Olympic basketball game is five days away.

12.   However, Syfred said losing the Kingdome makes it more difficult to find a venue that can host both Olympic basketball and gymnastics.

13.   Hours later Greece enhances its own basketball history by securing a first- ever Olympic basketball berth.

14.   In fact, the Olympic basketball people must feel very good about themselves this week.

15.   Indeed, playing for the Olympic basketball team is an honor, and not, as a couple of wise guys were reminded last week, an inalienable right.

16.   Ireland, who has studied Olympic basketball players and their injuries, notes that Miller tore anterior cruciate ligaments in both her knees.

17.   It was said that he withdrew from the U.S. Olympic basketball team because he had a sore Achilles tendon.

18.   Once the NBA took over the Olympic basketball program, amateurs soon found themselves squeezed out of the quadrennial world championships and even the Pan American Games.

19.   Q. Everybody knows that the U.S. Olympic basketball team is THE power in the field and barring an unforseen mishap will bring home the gold.

20.   Phoenix officials expect Timms to be that and the kind of floor leader who lifted Australia to its first Olympic basketball medal, male or female.