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Good day/night. Everyone what are we watching in the hour before this tips off?
Beau will be here shortly, in the meantime here is how the US men’s team got on yesterday:
We used to talk of the dream team, but this was the tournament of a dream player.
Such is America’s dominance of Olympic basketball that the quadrennial intrigue is not so much whether the US will win gold as whether they could lose it. But for Kevin Durant, the doomsday scenario might have come to pass.
Related: Durant hauls USA men’s basketball past France to fourth straight Olympic gold
