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Basketball.























Integrantes: Byron Ossa Muñoz. (4ºD)

Nicolás Melillán Calderón (4ºG)









Introduction.

The next job is to investigate one of the world's most famoussports, such as basketball, and also see how it will work for the London 2012 Olympic Games, whether in competition, their history in games, and how many medals are given things that will be varied in the course of work.

Development.



Description.

Basketball is a team sport, the objective being to shoot a ball through a basket horizontally positioned to score points whilefollowing a set of rules. Usually, two teams of five players play on a marked rectangular court with a basket at each width end. Basketball is one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports.



Field of play.

The basketball court is 28m long and 15m wide. The baskets at either end are 3.05m above the ground. The court is divided into two halves, with a free-throw line 5.8m insideeither end, and the three-point line a 6.75m radius from each basket.



History.

Basketball made its appearance at the Olympic Games in 1904 in St Louis as a demonstration sport, as the competition was held between only American teams and counted as an event of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU of the USA) Championships.
At the Games in 1936 in Berlin, basketball joined the Olympicprogramme, where it has remained to this day. Women’s basketball debuted at the 1976 Games in Montreal.

The USA dominates international basketball and won all the titles up to 1972, the year it was defeated by the Soviet Union at the Munich Games. In the women’s event, the Soviets took gold in 1976, 1980 and 1992, and were later dominated by the Americans between 1984 and 2008, except in 1992.In 1992 at the Barcelona Games, famous players from the National Basketball Association (NBA) were allowed for the first time to represent the USA. This team, known as the “Dream Team” in the international media, was undoubtedly the best basketball team ever formed. It delighted the public and widely dominated the Olympic tournament in 1992.



The basics.

In Basketball points are scoredby shooting the ball into your opponents’ net (or basket). The ball is moved up the court either by dribbling (bouncing) or passing to another team member. A player may not take more than two steps with the ball without dribbling.

Two points are awarded for a regular shot from open play, with one point for each successful free throw (following an opposition infringement) and three points for ashot from distance (beyond the three-point line).



Once in possession of the ball, a team has only 24 seconds to make an attempt on goal or they lose possession.

Games last for 40 minutes, split into four 10-minute quarters. The clock stops for every break in play and teams can call time-outs, which last one minute.



Competition format.

At London 2012, both the men’s andwomen’s Basketball competitions will begin with a preliminary stage. The 12 teams will be divided into two groups of six and each team will play every other in their group. Teams receive two points for a win, and one for a loss (although they receive no points for losing by forfeiting the game.

The best four teams from each group during the preliminaries will qualify for the knockout stage, withthe winners of the semi-finals going head-to-head in the gold medal game.

In the event of a tie at the end of any game, teams play extra periods of five minutes until the tie is broken.



















Competition Dates.





Saturday 28 July – Sunday 12 August.














Competition Venues.




• Olympic Park – Basketball...