Olympic Basketball: France 37, Spain 34 (Haltime)

France leads Spain at halftime but only by three. They've done it through ball movement, good outside shooting (5-13 3FG) and dribble penetrations. Boris Diaw is taking his shots from outside, bring Marc Gasol beyond his comfort zone. Florent Pietrus is surprisingly effective while Parker has been so-so.

Spain found themselves down by 7-10 points several times because of horrendous outside shooting (2-11 3FG), loose interior defense and the inability to take advantage of the size advantage of Pau Gasol. Marc Gasol and Serge Ibaka. Still, the Spaniards have clawed back to within 3 points, largely through the efforts of Rudy Fernandez.

If Spain wants to win, they've got to make better use of the Gasol brothers on offense and Ibaka on defense. For France, Diaw has to keep hitting his shots and Parker needs to start making more.

Oh-lympic Basketball: France On The Rise?

There's a team that rapidly rising to through the ranks of Olympic basketball and everyone's taking notice.

France, a team more known for its football players rather than its basketball players are suddenly making other traditional basketball powerhouses sit up and take notice.

Racism in the Olympics

Doesn't it seem odd that the world's most acclaimed sporting event for equality, brotherhood and sportsmanship has been the stage for high profile racism?

In this age of worldwide social media tools, there is nothing easier than to broadcast one's thoughts to a global audience.

Oh-lympics: Swimming

There are, of course, several excellent swimmers competing in the London Games. None of them, however, are as recognizable as Michael Phelps, who holds the record of having the most gold medals in a single Olympic Games. He won 8 gold medals in the Beijing Olympics, besting the 7 gold medals Mark Spitz won in the 1972 Munich Games.

In the coming Games, Phelps will be hard pressed by competitors to keep his golden streak alive. He's basically competing in the same events he competed in during the Beijing Games but several opponents seem to have improved immensely in the last year to pose a realistic challenge to Phelps.

Let's go through some of those competitors.

Olympic Fever!

We are 5 days away from the opening of the 2012 London Olympics and Olympic fever is starting to take over the world.

With this in mind, I'll be spending the next five days talking about all the important Olympic issues.

Watch out for the thrice a day installments of... Oh-lympics!