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.

Oh-lympic Basketball: US 98 vs France 71

For about one quarter, Team USA vs France was very much a basketball game. The French matched the intensity, fierceness and athleticism of the American to go down by only 1point, 22-21, in the first quarter. And then, the Americans turned it up another notch.

Kobe Bryant scored 5 straight points in the first 2mins of the second quarter as part of the 11-0 run by the Americans to put them up by 12points, which would be the closest France would get in the next 3quarters.