Not only does Kobe Bryant think the US Olympic team of NBA stars could beat the 1992 Dream Team, but he says the 2008 gold medal squad he played upon would defeat the 2010 US world champions.

Nigeria’s first-ever Olympic Games competitor in the canoeing event, Jonathan Akinyemi, on Sunday in London crashed out of the competition at his first attempt.

“I can’t describe it, I’ve always wanted to sing the national anthem on top of the dais, it’s a dream come true.” – MELANIE SCHLANGER, who swam the anchor leg in Australia’s gold medal winning 4x100m freestyle relay team.

Basketball, a sport neglected so much by the Nigerian authorities, brought the country so much to cheer yesterday at the magnificent Basketball Arena here at the Olympic Games.

We are glad that we won. We came here to prove that we are the best in Africa and I’m happy we did that. But credit must go to Tunisia. They are a very good team. In the first half we got on to a 16 point lead and that was good. But we got sluggish and they closed in on us.