The US-China Basketball thing

Well, there was eager anticipation in knowing how China would fare against the US and at home in both the Women and Men's competitions. The answer was unequivocal: not well. In Men, the US won by 31 points (101-70). Amongst accusations of arrogance from the American team (arrogance ?!), Mike K - the American coach - replied that the Americans dunked so much because there was, amongst others, this 2.26 m guy called Yao Ming that is quite good at blocking.

In the Women's competition, the anticipation was even stronger since approximately a month ago, China beat the US in the final of a preparatory tournament in Beijing. The story now was different, with the US winning by 45 points (108-63). V said "I had to change channels. The women were playing even worst than the men". V always gets these right.