■　Text by Yuan Long

Team USA is to match against Greece today in the China National Basketball Stadium. The Americans has waited long enough to erase the disgrace when they lost the game VS Greece in the '06 World Championship.

Dream Eight, crammed with U.S.’s NBA big shots, now can not just belittle their European counterpart. They even suffer restlessness for the coming Vendetta Match. Last Sunday, Kobe watched the duel between Greece and Spain. He will take on the No1 seed of Greece, Vassilis Spanoulis.

Meantime, in the gym, all eyes will be on Chinese Yang Wei, the best men's all-around gymnast of the latest two world championships, as the hosts are expected to make the most of their home advantage in Beijing against challenges from the sport's superpowers the United States, Japan, Russia and Romania.

In the pool, there is gold rush in four events, Men’s 200m Breaststroke, Women’s 200m Butterfly, Men’s 100m Freestyle and Women’s 4×200m Freestyle Relay. The Flying Fish battle in Men’s 100m Freestyle will be a great eye opener. It will be a rat race between Eamon Sullivan, Australian world record holder and Alain Bernard, French famed swimmer.