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Australia loses to Brazil at Olympics basketball
Jul 29th, 2012
An Australian side lacking NBA star centre Andrew Bogut came up short in its Olympic opener, falling to a Brazil team with four NBA standouts 75-71 on Sunday in round-robin Group B play. (Source: AFP) -
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