James, Wade off to Beijing

June 22, 2008|THE INQUIRER STAFF

NBA superstars LeBron James and Dwyane Wade have been selected to play on the U.S. Olympic basketball team, which will be formally introduced tomorrow by coach Mike Krzyzewski and USA Basketball managing director Jerry Colangelo.

The 12-man squad for the games in Beijing, China, which will also include NBA MVP Kobe Bryant, Jason Kidd and Carmelo Anthony, will try to win the Americans' first gold medal since 1996.

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Troy Dumais earned his third trip to the Olympics with a dominating performance in the 3-meter springboard at the U.S. trials in Indianapolis.

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Christina Loukas locked up her first trip to the Olympics with an easy win in the women's 3-meter.

Dumais blew away the 12-diver field with a total of 1552.90 over three rounds.

Horse racing

Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her first Royal Ascot victory since 1999 when her horse Free Agent won the Chesham Stakes in Ascot, England.

Richard Hughes rode the 7-2 cofavorite from last to win by 2 1/4 lengths over Seawy.

Tennis

Top-seeded David Ferrer won his first grass-court title by defeating Marc Gicquel, 6-4, 6-2, at the Ordina Open in Den Bosch, Netherlands.

Earlier, qualifier Tamarine Tanasugarn defeated third-seeded Dinara Safina, 7-5, 6-3.

Agnieszka Radwanska beat Nadia Petrova of Russia, 6-4, 6-7 (11), 6-4, in the final of the Eastbourne International Women's Open in England.

Colleges

Rich Poythress tied a College World Series record with three doubles, Ryan Peisel hit a three-run homer, and Georgia withstood Stanford's ninth-inning rally to advance to the championship round with a 10-8 win in Omaha, Neb.

The Bulldogs will play North Carolina in the best-of-three finals that start tomorrow.

The Tar Heels eliminated Fresno State, 4-3, on Chad Flack's monster two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning last night.

Soccer

The United States women won the Peace Queen Cup tournament, beating Canada by 1-0 on a 92d-minute goal by Angela Hucles in Suwon, South Korea.The Olympic roster will be announced tomorrow.

Boxing

Andre Berto (22-0) stopped Miguel "Mikki" Rodriguez (31-3) in the seventh round last night in Memphis, to capture the WBC welterweight title vacated by Floyd Mayweather, who retired earlier this month.

In the semifinal of the night, Chris Arreola (24-0, 21 KOs) defeated Philadelphia's Chazz Witherspoon (23-1) in a battle of undefeated heavyweights when Witherspoon was disqualified at the end of the third round.

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