By David GoldSeptember 18 - Spain's basketball squad are celebrating qualification for the 2012 Olympic

the Spanish side would be aiming for gold in 2012, having lost out in the Beijing 2008 final to the USA

It's a very sweet moment for [Spanish] basketball...next year's Olympics is our goal," he said."

Zealand and two as yet to be determined Asian representatives, who will be decided at their regional basketball

insidethegames.bizRelated storiesSeptember 2011: Argentina, Australia and Brazil all heading for London 2012 basketball

By David GoldSeptember 4 - Officials at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in North Carolina are celebrating after landing a number of prestigious events, including the Olympic trials for United States synchronised swimming, which will be held in two months' time, when 40 swimmers take to the venue's brand new pool.

the other events planned for the coming years.Jordan Dillon, the business development director for USA

The boost means that Greensboro's reputation as a tournament town for its hosting of college basketball

the city has called itself Tournament Town, thanks to its long-standing tradition in hosting college basketball

, particularly the ACC men's basketball tournament.However, with the new big pool off West Lee Street

best young players are heading out to Rimini in Italy for the start of the inaugural International Basketball

world including USA Basketball chief executive Jim Tooley."

USA Basketball applauds FIBA for taking another step in developing a worldwide 3x3 competition and we

Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Serbia, Spain, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, USA

India, Italy, Japan, Netherland, Russia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, USA

on Copacabana BeachAugust 2010:Tom Degun - Basketball stealing the show at Youth Olympics

By Marcus CrawleyAugust 12 - The Head of USA Basketball (USAB) believes he will still be able to field

With the lockout in full swing, Jerry Colangelo has no doubt that he will find 15 National Basketball

legal nightmares.But Colangelo is defiant and insisted: "I think it's important that people in the basketball

USA Basketball is self-sustaining; it's its own entity; it is not an arm of the NBA."

solely of NBA players and some like 34-year-old Kobe Bryant (pictured) and Kevin Durant, who led Team USA

I have to look at it from a different perspective as chairman of USA Basketball."

Göhr in the women's 4x100m relay at the tape in 41.98, sitting in the stands as the American men's basketball

fans at the venues, and wonderful hosts, especially the older Koreans who were there as kids when the USA

LegionAquaticsSwimmingPerformance dir: Michael Scott (Australia)Head coach: Dennis Pursey (USA

Szilveszter Fekete (Hungary)Athletics: Charles Van Commenee (Holland)Archery: Lloyd Brown (USA

)BadmintonPerformance dir: Jens Grill (Denmark)Head Coach: Kenneth Jonassen (Denmark)Basketball

Grobler (Germany)Women: Paul Thompson (Australia)SailingMen 470 perf coach: Morgan Reeser (USA

By David GoldJune 29 - The US Olympic Committee (USOC) has announced that basketball star Mercedes Russell

women's category, while the men's second and third places went to tennis player Bjorn Fratangelo and basketball

star Jabari Parker respectively.In the team category, the USA Water Polo Women's National team came

in at second place and the USA Basketball Men's Under-16 team in third.Female1    

nbsp;    Bob and Mike Bryan, Tennis2         USA

Water Polo Women's National team, Water Polo3         USA Basketball

By Duncan MackayJune 28 - Former basketball player Teresa Edwards, a four-time Olympic gold medallist

selected by the United States Olympic Committee's Board of Directors and will be in charge of Team USA

the 2012 Olympic Games," said Edwards, who worked as an analyst for NBC Sports coverage of basketball

and I'm excited to share whatever wisdom I have with the amazing men and women that will make up Team USA

Edwards was inducted into the US Olympic Hall of Fame in 2009, the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in

Chef de Mission steps down over gay marriage rowApril 2011: Double Olympic gold medallist named as USA

By Emily GoddardJune 16 - Britain's senior women's final 12 has been confirmed for EuroBasket Women 2011 which begins in Poland on Saturday (June 18).

65 loss in Latvia.The final squad is as follows:Rose Anderson (University Central Oklahoma, Edmond, USA

Villeneuve D'Ascq, France)Natalie Stafford (Sydney Flames, Australia)Azania Stewart (Florida University, USA

Sport".The event, organised by the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) and the Women's National Basketball

of the Atlanta Dream WNBA team Mary Brock.American Brock was actually in town for the high profile basketball

the MEN Arena on Sunday which saw her Atlanta team storm to a 82-51 win over Great Britain's women's basketball

selected as first pick in the 2011 WNBA draft by the Minnesota Lynx and is a household name in the USA

money generated can then be pumped back into the sport at a grass-roots level, as the WNBA do in the USA

Ferdinand, the Manchester United and England defender, has spoken of his excitement at the best American basketball

team will also be playing the Atlanta Dream at the same venue on May 29.Ferdinand said: "I am a huge basketball

In the USA, these athletes are absolute superstars and at the top of their game, and I'm sure that the

the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesMarch 2011: Britain's basketball

teams to take on USA in London 2012 warm-up matches

its journey to the Maracanã included Hortência Marcari, a woman considered to be Brazil’s best female basketball

nations represented: 205Number of competitors: 11,238Number of medal events: 306Gold medal standings: USA

By Duncan MackayApril 11 - Nike has extended its sponsorship of the United States Olympic and Paralympic teams until the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, they announced today.

Nike also sponsors several national governing bodies, including USA Basketball, US Soccer Federation

and USA Track & Field, all of which will feature athletes competing in Nike kit at London 2012.After

March 22 - Britain's basketball teams are to warm-up for their first appearance in the Olympics for 64

I cannot think of a more exciting prospect for fans in the UK than to see Great Britain play the USA

The USA–Great Britain games in Manchester will be a terrific prelude to the 2012 London Olympic Games

," said USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo."

The games are key components in the 2012 training plans for the USA Basketball men's and women's national

the games will be memorable events for all basketball fans."

have been drawn against Russia, Japan and Argentina in the preliminary round of the women's under-19 basketball

standard round-robin format.The groups are: A: Canada, China, Egypt, Italy; B Argentina, Japan, Russia, USA