European experts predict USA to win the Olympics

August 8, 2008 by Christophe 

In a joint poll run by ACB.com and BallinEurope.com, fourteen European based basketball experts were asked for their most likely to happen final ranking of the 2008 Olympic Games. And it is Team USA that got the most votes.

Together with ACB.com, BallinEurope asked 14 experts to give us their predictions for Beijing. 10 times, USA was the Gold Medal candidate, 3 times Spain was the first one and one participant voted for Argentina. The third candidate for an Olympic medal was Greece, while two persons also saw Lithuania go for a Bronze Medal. One strange voter even went for Germany winning the Bronze medal. I don’t know how good this “expert” knows the World Basketball scene…

So below, you can find the final combined vote as well as all the different results coming from our experts.

  1. USA
  2. Spain
  3. Greece
  4. Argentina
  5. Lithuania
  6. Russia
  7. Germany
  8. Croatia
  9. Australia
  10. China
  11. Angola
  12. Iran
Mariano Suarez Saman Nasseri Maxime Weber Kris Santiago Karlo Dzeverlija Oleksandr Pasko Pucki
Argentina Iran France Croatia Russia Germany
TyC Sports eurobasket.com africabasket.com kosarka.hr Molody Bukovinets schoenen-dunk.de
  1. Spain
  2. USA
  3. Argentina
  4. Lithuania
  5. Greece
  6. Russia
  7. Croatia
  8. Germany
  9. Australia
  10. China
  11. Angola
  12. Iran
  1. USA
  2. Greece
  3. Spain
  4. Russia
  5. Lithuania
  6. Argentina
  7. China
  8. Croatia
  9. Germany
  10. Australia
  11. Iran
  12. Angola
  1. USA
  2. Spain
  3. Argentina
  4. Greece
  5. Germany
  6. Lithuania
  7. Russia
  8. Croatia
  9. China
  10. Australia
  11. Angola
  12. Iran
  1. USA
  2. Spain
  3. Greece
  4. Germany
  5. Russia
  6. Argentina
  7. Croatia
  8. Lithuania
  9. Australia
  10. China
  11. Angola
  12. Iran
  1. USA
  2. Spain
  3. Argentina
  4. Greece
  5. Lithuania
  6. Russia
  7. Croatia
  8. Germany
  9. Australia
  10. China
  11. Iran
  12. Angola
  1. USA
  2. Spain
  3. Grecce
  4. Argentina
  5. Russia
  6. Lithuania
  7. Croatia
  8. Australia
  9. Germany
  10. China
  11. Angola
  12. Iran
  1. Argentina
  2. USA
  3. Spain
  4. Russia
  5. Greece
  6. Lithuania
  7. Croatia
  8. Germany
  9. Australia
  10. China
  11. Iran
  12. Angola
Christophe Pietro Scibetta Serdar Ortakuyu Anze Blazicic Sarunas Mazalas Pablo Malo de Molina Yarone Arbel
Europe Italy Turkey Slovenia Lithuania Spain Israel
BallinEurope.com Basketground.it eurobasket.com kosarka.it basketnews.lt ACB.com euroleague.net
  1. USA
  2. Greece
  3. Germany
  4. Spain
  5. Australia
  6. Lithuania
  7. Argentina
  8. Russia
  9. Croatia
  10. Angola
  11. China
  12. Iran
  1. USA
  2. Greece
  3. Spain
  4. Argentina
  5. Lithuania
  6. Russia
  7. Croatia
  8. Germany
  9. China
  10. Australia
  11. Iran
  12. Angola
  1. USA
  2. Argentina
  3. Spain
  4. Greece
  5. Russia
  6. Germany
  7. Lithunia
  8. Croatia
  9. China
  10. Australia
  11. Iran
  12. Angola
  1. Spain
  2. USA
  3. Greece
  4. Argentina
  5. Lithuania
  6. Croatia
  7. Russia
  8. Germany
  9. China
  10. Australia
  11. Iran
  12. Angola
  1. Spain
  2. USA
  3. Lithuania
  4. Argentina
  5. Greece
  6. Australia
  7. Russia
  8. Germany
  9. Croatia
  10. China
  11. Iran
  12. Angola
  1. USA
  2. Spain
  3. Greece
  4. Argentina
  5. Lithuania
  6. Russia
  7. Germany
  8. Australia
  9. China
  10. Croatia
  11. Angola
  12. Iran
  1. USA
  2. Spain
  3. Lithuania
  4. Germany
  5. Australia
  6. Greece
  7. Argentina
  8. Croatia
  9. Russia
  10. China
  11. Angola
  12. Iran

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Comments

2 Responses to “European experts predict USA to win the Olympics”

  1. Kevin Whitaker - High School sports football basketball blog - Fan in Motion » Olympic Games - timesunion.com - Albany NY on August 9th, 2008 4:47 am

    [...] enters the Olympic tournament as the favorite, not only in America but also according to international analysts as well. Simply put, this is the most talented team America has put on the floor this century. [...]

  2. tsomp on August 9th, 2008 12:41 pm

    hm this germany pick might be pretty smart. Here’s the deal: Germany can
    definitely go to the semis (one game - Dirk goes crazy over say Russia-no Spain,USA or Greece on that group).
    But if they go there, they definitely have more motivation for the bronze than
    Spain! Another spanish failure to win it all + Dirk’s being pretty psyched about the medal = Germany easily :-)
    Of course that would presuppose that Spain loses to Greece at some point (group or semi) and that Argentina loses the first spot of group A.. I wouldn’t bet on any of those even if I AM greek

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