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the delegation, after Chuan Kwang Yang’s in the decathlon thirty two years ago, and the first ever team sport medal. It had beaten the Japanese 5-2 in the semis, with the help of one of the most effective pitchers of the tournament, Chien-Fu Cuo Lee, who allowed three runs in a total of 29 innings. The Japanese had a 8-3 triumph over the USA team in the bronze-medal decider, following a 7-1 win over it in the preliminaries. Even if the USA teams are somewhat used to lack of success on the international stage, winning only two world championships, in 1974 and 1975, the result was rather a disappointment for the USA players, who beat the Japanese in the final in 1988 when baseball was demonstrating. The US coach was stoic: “The fact of finishing fourth in these Olympic Games is a great honour...“, but some Americans would definitely like to see their pros in the Olympic tournament. The Japanese coach put it well: “The USA team is very strong. They had less experience, which explains our victory, but I don’t know what would happen if we had to play them again in a month’s time...” Classement final - Final standing - Clasificación final 1.CUB 2. TPE 3. JPN 4. USA Demi-finales - Semi-finales - Semifinales JPN-TPE 2-5 CUB-USA 4-1 Finale - Final TPE-CUB 1-11 USA-JPN 3-8 Hommes - Men - Hombres 1.CUB Luis Ulacia Alvarez. Alberto Hernandez Perez, Lazaro Vargas Alvarez, Omar Linares Izquierdo, German Mesa Fresneda, Juan Padilla Alfonso, Lourdes Gurriel Delgado, Jose Antonio Estrada Gonzalez, Osvaldo Fernandez Rodriguez, Orlando Hernandez Pedroso, Giorge Diaz Loren, Omar Ajete Iglesias, Victor Mesa Martinez, Jorge Luis Valdes Berriel, Jose Raul Delgado Diez, Rolando Arrojo Avila, Orestes Kindelan Olivares, Antonio Pacheco Masso. Juan Carlos Perez Rondon, Ermidelio Urrutia Quiroga. 2. TPE Chao-Huang Lin, Kun-Han Lin, Kuang-Shih Wang,Wei- Chen Chen, Wen-Po Huang, Shih-Hsih Wu, Yaw-Teing Chang, Ming-Hsiung Liao, Kuo-Chong Lo, Chung-Yi Huang, Chen-Jung Lo, Chi-Hsin Chen, Tai-Chuan Chiang, Kun-Hong Pai, Chien-Fu Kuo Lee, Kuo-Chian Ku, Ming-Hung Tsai, Cheng-Hsien Chang, Wen-Chung Chang. Yeu-Jeng Jong. 3. JPN Koichi Oshima, Shigeki Wakabayashi, Masafumi Nishi, Koji Tokunaga, Akihiro Togo, Hirotami Kojima. Hiroki Kokubo, Hiroyuki Sakaguchi, Yasunori Takami, Yasuhiro Sato, Kento Sugiyama, Katsumi Watanabe, Karutaka Nishiyama, Masahito Kohiyama, Tomohito Ito, Masanori Sugiura, Takashi Miwa, Shinichi Sato, Hiroshi Nakamoto, Shinichiro Kawabata. Baseball - on the Olympic programme for the first time. 499
500 A long-awaited final: the “Dream Team” against the Croatians. Hommes - Men - Hombres * Classement final - Final standing - Clasificación final 1.USA 5. BRA 2. CRO 3. LTU 4. EUN Demi-finales - Semi finals Semifinales CRO-EUN 75-74 USA-LTU 127-76 6. AUS 7. GER 8. PUR Finales - Finals 1-2 USA-CRO 117-85 3-4 LTU-EUN 82-78 5-6 BRA-AUS 90-80 7-8 GER-PUR 96-86 BASKETBALL To say that the American “Dream Team” were the favourites in this tournament would be an understatement. This unique line-up, made up of the best basketball players from the American professional circuit, was faithful, with little passion but with goodwill, to the legend surrounding it, displaying real superiority at all levels thanks to exceptional players like Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Larry Bird or Michael Jordan. The team reached the final with an average fortypoint advantage over its opponents in the preceding matches. It won the semi-final 51 points ahead of Lithuania For the young Baltic republic, basketball represented its safest bet for a medal. After triumphing last year in the pre-Olympic competition by winning all eleven of its qualifying games, the team proved equal to the task. In one of those encounters which history rarely allows, it won the bronze by four points against the Unified Team, thanks to 27 points scored by Arvydas Sabonis and 29 points from Sarunas Marciulionis, two of the four players who were part of the victorious Soviet Olympic squad in Seoul. The quarter-finals saw matches between the American and Puerto-Rican teams, the Croats and the Australians, the Lithuanians and the Brazilians and the Unified Team and Germany. After getting the better of the Australians, the Croatian players made sure of at least the silver medal by winning their semi-final match against the Unified Team, with a very close score of 75-74. With one minute to go, the Unified Team, which had won its quarterfinal encounter with Germany, was leading by four points. But two missed free throws brought the Croats to life. With fourteen seconds left to play, Drazen Petrovic clinched the victory by netting two free throws for Croatia. But in the final, the Croatians met their match. The American players confirmed all the predictions but their margin of victory was the smallest yet, 32 points, the best result against them. For the first fifteen minutes of the game, the Croats did no more than resist, thanks to the points obtained by Petrovic and Rajda, doing everything possible to withstand the rapid game of the “Dream Team”, which was then only six points ahead. At the end of the first half, the Americans were leading by 56 points to 42. For that final evening of the Games, the Palau d’Esports in Badalona be- Hommes - Men - Hombres 1. USA: Christian D. Laettner, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Larry Bird, Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan, Clyde Drexler, Karls Malone, John Stockton, Chris Mullin, Charles Barkley, Earvin Johnson. 2. CRO: Drazen Petrovic, Velimir Perasovic, Danko Cvjeticanin, Toni Kukoc, Vladan Alanovic, Franjo Arapovic, Zan Tabak. Stojko Vrankovic, Alan Gregov, Arijan Komazec, Dino Radja, Aramis Naglic. 3. LTU: Valdemaras Chomicius, Alvydas Pazdrazdis, Arunas Visockas, Darius Dimavicius, Romanas Brazdauskis, Gintaras Krapikas, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Arvydas Sabonis, Arturas Karnisovas, Sarunas Marciulionis, Gintaras Einikis, Sergejus Jovaisa.
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the delegation, after Chuan Kwang Yang’s in<br />
the decathlon thirty two years ago, and the<br />
first ever team sport medal. It had beaten the<br />
Japanese 5-2 in the semis, with the help of<br />
one of the most effective pitchers of the tournament,<br />
Chien-Fu Cuo Lee, who allowed<br />
three runs in a total of 29 innings.<br />
The Japanese had a 8-3 triumph over the<br />
USA team in the bronze-medal decider, following<br />
a 7-1 win over it in the preliminaries.<br />
Even if the USA teams are somewhat used to<br />
lack of success on the international stage,<br />
winning only two world championships, in<br />
1974 and 1975, the result was rather a disappointment<br />
for the USA players, who beat the<br />
Japanese in the final in 1988 when baseball<br />
was demonstrating. The US coach was stoic:<br />
“The fact of finishing fourth in these Olympic<br />
Games is a great honour...“, but some Americans<br />
would definitely like to see their pros in<br />
the Olympic tournament. The Japanese<br />
coach put it well: “The USA team is very<br />
strong. They had less experience, which explains<br />
our victory, but I don’t know what<br />
would happen if we had to play them again<br />
in a month’s time...”<br />
Classement final - Final standing -<br />
Clasificación final<br />
1.CUB<br />
2. TPE<br />
3. JPN<br />
4. USA<br />
Demi-finales - Semi-finales - Semifinales<br />
JPN-TPE 2-5<br />
CUB-USA 4-1<br />
Finale - Final<br />
TPE-CUB 1-11<br />
USA-JPN 3-8<br />
Hommes - Men - Hombres<br />
1.CUB<br />
Luis Ulacia Alvarez. Alberto Hernandez Perez, Lazaro<br />
Vargas Alvarez, Omar Linares Izquierdo, German Mesa<br />
Fresneda, Juan Padilla Alfonso, Lourdes Gurriel Delgado,<br />
Jose Antonio Estrada Gonzalez, Osvaldo Fernandez<br />
Rodriguez, Orlando Hernandez Pedroso, Giorge<br />
Diaz Loren, Omar Ajete Iglesias, Victor Mesa Martinez,<br />
Jorge Luis Valdes Berriel, Jose Raul Delgado Diez, Rolando<br />
Arrojo Avila, Orestes Kindelan Olivares, Antonio<br />
Pacheco Masso. Juan Carlos Perez Rondon, Ermidelio<br />
Urrutia Quiroga.<br />
2. TPE<br />
Chao-Huang Lin, Kun-Han Lin, Kuang-Shih Wang,Wei-<br />
Chen Chen, Wen-Po Huang, Shih-Hsih Wu, Yaw-Teing<br />
Chang, Ming-Hsiung Liao, Kuo-Chong Lo, Chung-Yi<br />
Huang, Chen-Jung Lo, Chi-Hsin Chen, Tai-Chuan<br />
Chiang, Kun-Hong Pai, Chien-Fu Kuo Lee, Kuo-Chian<br />
Ku, Ming-Hung Tsai, Cheng-Hsien Chang, Wen-Chung<br />
Chang. Yeu-Jeng Jong.<br />
3. JPN<br />
Koichi Oshima, Shigeki Wakabayashi, Masafumi Nishi,<br />
Koji Tokunaga, Akihiro Togo, Hirotami Kojima. Hiroki<br />
Kokubo, Hiroyuki Sakaguchi, Yasunori Takami, Yasuhiro<br />
Sato, Kento Sugiyama, Katsumi Watanabe, Karutaka<br />
Nishiyama, Masahito Kohiyama, Tomohito Ito,<br />
Masanori Sugiura, Takashi Miwa, Shinichi Sato, Hiroshi<br />
Nakamoto, Shinichiro Kawabata.<br />
Baseball - on the Olympic<br />
programme for the first time.<br />
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