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Russia - Latvia (womens)

The last game in womens olympic basketball tournament first day will be between european champions Russia and 4th place in europe Latvia. Bookies have set Russia as big favorite in this game, but I disagree with that. Yes, Russia is best team in europe, but their play in preperation games was far away from that. On the other side Latvia is in good form before Olympics and is my black horse in this tournament as no one realy thinks that they can achieve anything here.

Latvia will be playing for the first time in Olympic games and that will give them extra motivation. Latvia have balanced rooster with last years best european player Anete Jekabsone in front. Of course there is no doubt that Russia also have very good rooster as they are one of favorite teams to get medals. The thing is that I think that difference between those teams is not so big as bookies think. These teams also recently met in Golden Ball preperation tournament and Latvia showed that they can play against Russia and even beat them. After that Latvia gave hard fight to USA loosing only at the end bY 10 points while Russia where defeated by 35 points. The big plus for latvians is that their coach Zvigrzdins several years have worked in Russia and very well knows Russian players, their strong sides and also weak sides and there is no doubt that he have done huge homework before this game.

This is first game in tournament and it's always easier for underdog teams as they don't have such a presure on them as Russia have here as all nation is waiting only for win in this game. I think that Latvia has quite good chances to make big surprise here and start tournament with unexpekted win.

Latvia +10.5, Latvia to win.

Pick : Latvia
Odds : 7.00
Stake : 2 / 10
Bookmaker : Pinnacle
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Date : 2008-08-09
Match Result : 62-57
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