When: Aug. 6-21.
Where: Qinhuangho, Shenyang, Tianjin, Shanghai and Beijing, Aug. 6-15; Shanghai and Beijing, semifinals, Aug. 18; Beijing, finals, Aug. 21.
TV: MSNBC, NBC Olympic Soccer Channel, USA, CNBC.
Format: Three four-team pools play a round-robin series with the top two teams advancing to the quarterfinals, along with the two top third-place finishers. A knockout format then begins and runs through the gold-medal game. Semifinal losers play for the bronze.
Philly file: Midfielder Carli Lloyd is from Delran, N.J. . . . Nicole Barnhart, of Gilbertsville, Berks County, is the backup goalkeeper behind Hope Solo. Barnhart played 4 years on the boys' varsity team at Boyertown High . . . Pia Sundhage was an assistant coach of the Charge in the 2001 and '02 seasons and Heather Mitts played for the Charge . . . U.S. assistant Erica Walsh is the head women's coach of Penn State and is from Bordentown, N.J.