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London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT2|

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Kleiza is an NBA starter, he was just hurt last year. Valanciunas was the 5th pick in last years draft, many think he'll be a star. And they have other players that could play in the NBA but they're either under contract in Europe or get paid more there then they would here like Jasikevicius.

Lithuania is a very good team in the international game (which is different from the NBA game), it wasn't just an embarrassing performance by the US this is how the games have been going between them for almost a decade. If they played with NBA rules (further 3 point line and rules that allow more isolation 1 on 1 play) US would have a bigger advantage.

kleiza's probably a 7th or 8th on most nba teams, with landry on the raps not sure if he'll be starting anyways. lithuania does have an excellent basketball program well suited for the international game.
 
kleiza's probably a 7th or 8th on most nba teams, with landry on the raps not sure if he'll be starting anyways. lithuania does have an excellent basketball program well suited for the international game.

Hey i didn't say he was a starter on a good team :p. But he has started for most of his career. And you can hide him on D in FIBA ball which is what keeps him from being a good NBA player.
 
We're amazing at cycling. Can we apply some of the concepts of training or development or whatever to other sports to maybe be as good in them in a few Olympics' time? Or is it more to do with our cyclists being so talented?

It all comes from the Velodrome built in Manchester for the 2002 Commonwealth games. Then the brilliant coaches and cutting edge sports science teams based there have just built on top of that. Cycling is tailor made for this approach, but it can still be transferred to other sports, it's just a matter of funding and time.
 
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I like Oscar but I don't understand how they govern that etc in terms of deciding whether it can be an advantage or not

Some of the BBC commentators were discussing this earlier, apparently studies have shown that the prosthetic limbs offer a small advantage towards the end of the race, however this is offset by a fairly equal disadvantage at the start, the disadvantage being that a runner with both limbs can get upright at a slower pace and put more of their energy into forward motion, whereas the prosthetic limbs require that the runner get upright as quickly as possible.
 
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